TY - JOUR
T1 - The potential and trend of end-of-life passenger vehicles recycling in China
AU - Li, Yang
AU - Fujikawa, Kiyoshi
AU - Wang, Junbo
AU - Li, Xin
AU - Ju, Yiyi
AU - Chen, Chenyi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71804195) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 16KT0088). We also appreciated the financial support from the Sakura Science Plan (No. S2019F0603472) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency to organize a joint seminar where the idea of this paper was generated and discussed.
Funding Information:
Funding: This research received funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71804195) and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 16KT0088). We also appreciated the financial support from the Sakura Science Plan (No. S2019F0603472) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency to organize a joint seminar where the idea of this paper was generated and discussed.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the author.
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - The contradiction between limited resources and rapid development in the automobile industry has been driving society to seek the supply of recyclable resources from End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs). It has become an urgent need for vehicle recycling policymakers to have an overall understanding of the end-of-life (EoL) vehicle population, as well as for vehicle producers to note what and how they can benefit from ELV recycling. This paper estimated the potential population of EoL passenger vehicles, all recyclable resources from them, as well as the economic values of these recyclable resources. The results show that in 2030, with a lighter-weight trend of passenger vehicles, more than 26.3 million passenger vehicles will be retired with 19.1 million tons of recyclable steel and 6.2 million tons of plastics. The theoretical economic value of all recyclable resources will reach 101.3 billion yuan ($14.4 billion) in 2030, which is an average of approximately 2.4 thousand yuan ($341.8) for each EoL passenger vehicle. It is time for the vehicle producers to shift to a manufacturing mode considering such large potential of ELV recycling. The scenario analysis suggests that in the context of a light-weighting trend, ELV resource recovery in the future calls for improvement in the recycling and reuse technologies of plastics and rubbers.
AB - The contradiction between limited resources and rapid development in the automobile industry has been driving society to seek the supply of recyclable resources from End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs). It has become an urgent need for vehicle recycling policymakers to have an overall understanding of the end-of-life (EoL) vehicle population, as well as for vehicle producers to note what and how they can benefit from ELV recycling. This paper estimated the potential population of EoL passenger vehicles, all recyclable resources from them, as well as the economic values of these recyclable resources. The results show that in 2030, with a lighter-weight trend of passenger vehicles, more than 26.3 million passenger vehicles will be retired with 19.1 million tons of recyclable steel and 6.2 million tons of plastics. The theoretical economic value of all recyclable resources will reach 101.3 billion yuan ($14.4 billion) in 2030, which is an average of approximately 2.4 thousand yuan ($341.8) for each EoL passenger vehicle. It is time for the vehicle producers to shift to a manufacturing mode considering such large potential of ELV recycling. The scenario analysis suggests that in the context of a light-weighting trend, ELV resource recovery in the future calls for improvement in the recycling and reuse technologies of plastics and rubbers.
KW - End-of-Life passenger vehicles
KW - Recyclable resources
KW - Scenario analysis
KW - Urban mining
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U2 - 10.3390/su12041455
DO - 10.3390/su12041455
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081278177
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 12
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 4
ER -
