Vehicle Recycling Partnership for the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment DfE Work Group Meeting March 1, 2004 USCAR 1000 Town Center, St. 300 Southfield, MI 48075

MissionStatement Mission Statement The mission of the Vehicle Recycling Partnership is to promote an integrated approach to the technical and economic feasibility of recycling for vehicles built in North America for the global marketplace.

2002 – 2007 VRP Emphasis Pre-Competitive Research and Technology Transfer Cost Effective Environmental Soundness Collaborative Approach Infrastructure Focus Materials Management Material Separation Technologies Pilot Plant Demonstrations Energy Recovery Material Substitutions Life Cycle Assessment Component Recyclability Assessment Sustainability: Society, Economics and Environmental

Scope  North American Vehicles End of useful life  Sustainable infrastructure Environmental impact - minimized Shredder residue – broader scope Substances of concern – leveraged phase out  Global roll out of practices

Past VRP Activities Past VRP Activities  Engineering Projects U.S. Field Trial Project – automotive plastic recycling project Automated Separation Process Substances of Concern Task Force (e.g. lead free e-coat, testing protocols) National LCI Data Base (NREL)

Substances of Concern (No redundant actions)  Coordination with existing entities USCAR Fastener Committee Auto Alliance Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG)  Supplier / Industry awareness campaign American Plastics Council (APC)/pigments  Common list of known applications Usage of mercury, lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and nickel Past VRP Activities Past VRP Activities

 Strategic Issues Substances of Concern – Hexavalent Chromium, Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Nickel Roadmap DOE / ANL / CRADA / Cooperative Agreement – Leveraging Resources VRPStrategy 2003/4 & Beyond Next Steps/Roadmap Alignment VRP Strategy 2003/4 & Beyond Next Steps/Roadmap Alignment

 Develop a collaborative automotive materials recycling program for recycling future North American end-of-life vehicles  Develop an implementation plan to work with Argonne National Labs, DOE & Collaborators on recycling end-of- life vehicles of the future.  Create a new CRADA or Cooperative Agreement with Argonne & collaborators. Perform baseline assessment of the recycling systems and technology (worldwide). Post-shredding technologies and separation demonstrations for extended operating pilot Recovered polymer compatibility, system integration & optimization VRP Strategy 2003/4 & Beyond Next Steps/Roadmap Alignment/CRADA

 Automated Separation (Salyp) Troy Polymers Inc. Midland Compounding MBA Polymers Inc.  HexChrome protocol Testing Suppliers Materials Current Project Activity

 Advanced Shredder Technologies (ISRI Collaborator) Greater metal extraction / Greater plastics extraction SOC Isolation - chemically & physically CWT Depolymerization of SR DRI briquettes Other Recovery Technologies Automated Separation of Plastics from Shredder Residue

LCA Studies  Material recovery approach (including our previously researched technologies; RPI, Salyp, MBA, etc.)  Benchmark technologies  Plastic streams – does this make sense?  Renewables - impact on recyclability  Advanced Material Vehicles– impact on recyclability  Reuse of parts  Regulation - global differences in calculations  Marketing studies - what are really the market drivers for PCR plastics?

Global Differences in Calculation  Assessment of calculation methods Renewables Hybrids Reuse  Regulation assessment  Recyclability calculations

Advanced Material Vehicles  Detailed dismantling analyses New SOC concerns to deal with? Assessment of recyclability Assessment of ASR Assessment of component recyclability

SOC Task Force Projects  Cr+6 testing  CCRT Hg free seminar  Nickel seminar  Electroless nickel  Metal finishing panel (November 2004)

CRADA Partners Cooperative Research Agreement (CRADA) No – September 2003 Argonne National Laboratory American Plastics Council Vehicle Recycling Partnership