Abstract
Within the End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) directive, various terminology and practices are outlined to ultimately divert waste from landfill, including reuse, recycle, recovery, treatment, prevention and economic operators. Remanufacturing terminology is not explicitly stated however. Further, leading global automotive remanufacturers, have recently agreed upon a collective definition of what constitutes automotive remanufacturing. With a view to establishing remanufacturing as a stand-alone process within the ELV directive going forward, this research analyses where remanufacturing is currently situated within the ELV directive, highlighting obstacles, with a strong focus on ‘waste terminology’, of directly incorporating remanufacturing into the ELV directive and presents guidance on incorporating remanufacturing moving forward. By ignoring the concept of waste, this study found that remanufacturing processes are generally classed under reuse, recycling and recovery terminology with remanufacturing also having a tenuous relationship with treatment facilities and economic operators. In addition to highlighting the issues caused by remanufacturing spanning across recycle and reuse terminology, by incorporating waste, this research also found that automotive associations definition of remanufacturing is not able to be incorporated into the ELV directive directly. A workable solution, taking both the objectives of the ELV directive and the view of the automotive associations into consideration, was however found, and is presented in this work.
Highlights
The End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) directive [11] is a key strategy in tackling the large amount of waste vehicles generated within the EU each year – between 2006 and 2014 EU member states recorded approximately 59 million tonnes [14]
The conclusion is that given a lack of explicit remanufacturing terminolgy in the ELV directive, remanufacturing being a legitimate disposal avoidance strategy is forced to have a presence in prevention measures, recycling, recovery and reuse with remanufacturers themselves able to be classed in some circumstances liberally as economic operators and treatment operators
The authors put forward, that given remanufacturing is a viable option for restoring products to as new standard, remanufacturing terminology should be adopted into the ELV directive, the non-waste requirement from the automotive associations must be eliminated from a future definition
Summary
The End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) directive [11] is a key strategy in tackling the large amount of waste vehicles generated within the EU each year – between 2006 and 2014 EU member states recorded approximately 59 million tonnes [14]. With a view to establishing remanufacturing as a stand-alone process within the ELV directive going forward, this research seeks to identify the compatibility of remanufacturing, as agreed upon by leading global automotive remanufacturing associations, within the current ELV directive. This research investigates where remanufacturing currently resides within the ELV directive, identifies obstacles, with a strong focus on ‘waste’ terminology, to the insertion of remanufacturing directly into the ELV directive presents a workable solution to incorporating remanufacturing moving forward. Through examination of the various landfill avoidance strategies within the ELV directive, this manuscript presents for the first time in literature, an analysis of where remanufacturing currently resides with the ELV directive. The obstacles of incorporating remanufacturing into the ELV directive directly are presented with the issues of waste taking a strong focus.
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