Abstract
Keywords:Car Wreck, Shredder, Shredder Light Fraction, Material Recovery, Energy Recovery
Nowadays environmental experts are facing a huge problem about how to handle the tremendous amount of car wrecks. This is a continuously developing area because of its necessity and because of the strict rules of the European Union.
Today the most efficient car wreck recycling solution is the shredder technology followed by residue separation. There are two kinds of technologies for residue utilization: material recovery (e.g. Volkswagen SiCon, MBA Polymers, Delft Univ.) and energy recovery (e.g. pyrolysis). European Union directives expect to increase significantly the usage of material recovery instead of energy recovery. The most important aim is to change the present practice by lowering the volume of waste getting into the landfill.