It is about six months before member states are required to have implemented Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles. The Directive sets targets for the re-use, recovery and recycling of end-of-life vehicles, and requires that components of vehicles put on the market after 1 July 2003 do not contain lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium. An initial report collated information on the presence and quantity of heavy metal containing parts and components in vehicles. It analysed whether alternatives exist, and assessed their technical, environmental and economic implications. It has found that both steel petrol tanks with a lead-free coating and plastic tanks are available and have been widely introduced in the series production of cars. These lead-free alternatives are economically feasible. On the use of lead in protective paints, the report concludes that such paints are gradually being phased out because it is in the interests of the automotive industry to reduce their hazardous wastes, and the performance of alternative paints is sufficient. The widespread use of chromium VI in cars makes the phase out of hexavalent chromium in corrosion preventive coatings, a complex field.
Goodbye heavy metals
Metalle, lebet wohl
PPCJ Polymers Paint Colour Journal ; 191 , 4445 ; 36
2001
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