Treatment of end-of-life vehicles

Abstract The European Union has made producers responsible for recycling ELVs while the US lack an all-inclusive legislation in this area. ELVs today are a very highly recycled product. They are dismantled and shredded. Useful components like reusable parts and metals are reused or recycled while the non-metallic shredder residue is usually landfilled. The environmental impact of ELVs is manly due to resources lost when shredder residue is landfilled and to emissions of hazardous substances …

…would be the main reason that dismantlers most often use the traditional way of scrap yards, which is mainly focused on minimizing the expenses by having the customers perform actual dismantling and keeping capital and operation cost as minimum as the could. Since shredders income consists of payment for both ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals produced, it is very much dependent to scrap metal value at the time and the fluctuations on the local market.