
| Plastics from the Junkyard |
Every end-of-life car is a source of raw material. During the today recycling process, polymers end up along with dust, slivers of metal and textile fluff in the non-metalic shredder residue (shredder-light-fraction). This mixes the plastics so indiscriminately that it has never been possible to seperate them into the individual types again and they are therefore used as reducing agents in blast furnaces. Toyota Europe, SiCon GmbH and Fraunhofer IVV addressed this issue in a pilot project.
With the CeaSolv® Process such plastic blends could be recycled and be processed again to dashboards for example. The CreaSolv®-Process also allows a seperation from toxic impurities, the polymer gets into contact with during the shredder process. More information: |