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Recycling of truck and trailers
Unlike traditional vehicles that are exported to end their life a long way from Europe, aluminium-intensive trailers generally spend their entire life on our continent, where they are eventually dismantled with a very high recycling rate.
This has been demonstrated by two studies made by the UTT-Université de technolgie de Troyes (France).
A first study which was realized in 2006 aimed at understanding the fate, the present and future end-of-life treatment of aluminium parts from trucks and trailers used in EU-25. The main output of that project has been a European mass flow model of the aluminium scraps coming form end-of-life commercial vehicles and a list of actors involved in the process.
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In a second project, the current end-of-life processing practices were analysed through four actual case studies: one road tractor, one flatbed semi-trailer, one silo semi-trailer and a tipping body. A minimum recycling rate of 95% has been demonstrated.
Download the report the first study (European Mass Flow) or the article published in “Resources, Conservation and Recycling”.
Download the report and annex of the second study (Four case studies).