While European Union (EU) and North America (NA) have worked to establish methods of automotive collection and recycling, the penetration and profitability of reuse differs dramatically. Only through the combined efforts of the manufacturer, insurer, repairer, consumer, and government, driving the marketplace to be responsible as well as competitive, will profitable recycling results be achieved. Effective partnerships between industry and the consumer can best achieve the goals of EU directive as well as maximizing environmental compliance and consumer benefit in NA. When corporations take responsibility for their products at the end of life, there is an incentive to make less wasteful, less toxic, and more durable and recyclable products. Specific examples of activities that directly impact effective and profitable recycling, and are controllable include: Product design to facilitate reuse, and end-of-life or lifecycle environmental performance; end-of-life management with increased attention toward greater reuse, remanufacturing and recycling; joint responsibility, stewardship or partnership activities from manufacturer to consumer to recycler. The NA automotive manufacturers have started to recognize the importance of developing partnerships in the marketplace to identify recycling and waste management opportunities. The Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP) is an example of voluntary action between Ford, GM and Chrysler in a cooperative effort among companies to create common systems for recycling.


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    Title :

    Responsible and profitable end-of-life vehicle processing in a competitive market driven environment


    Additional title:

    Verantwortliche und profitable Altautosverarbeitung in einem von der Umwelt bestimmten konkurrierenden Markt


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    19 Seiten, 11 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English