Abstract
Numerous and wide-ranging initiatives are being pursued all over the world today to help pass on a sound natural environment to future generations. Automotive production is one of Slovakian leading industries. Because of urgent priority on protecting the environment, it is inevitable for manufacturers to be engaged in ongoing efforts to develop more environmentally friendly automobiles and a more viable infrastructure for them - one in which provisions for environmental protection, including recycling, constitute an essential part. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is atool for the systematic evaluation of the environmental aspects of aproduct or service system through all stages of its life cycle. The article is focused on some possibilities of improving the environmental safety of motor vehicles especially by application of the LCA in automobile production.
Highlights
After years of debate between the car manufacturers and government officials, the End-of-Life Directive 2000/53/EC from the European commission was published in October 2000, combining requirements for the European Member States, requirements for vehicle manufacturers as well as obliging the European Commission itself to amend existing European legislation (Whole Vehicle Type Approval: recyclability calculation)
The EU ELV Directive left the possibility to each of these member states how to arrange their national procedures for collection and treatment of ELVs; the member states were allowed to apply stricter measures (e.g. The Netherlands – which requires a 95% recycling target for 2007 instead of 2015)
Meeting the recycling and recovery target as set by the EU ELV Directive is an issue for the European member state authorities; they will have to rely on data gathered via various economic operators and according to the procedures from each member states
Summary
End-of–life vehicles present a valuable source or raw materials (table 1, figure 1) with a wealth of potential, which can be after appropriate selection and further processing used as input for further production. [4]. The changing automotive material mix over the past fifteen years and evolutionary technology trends for the future relative to automobile architecture for improved safety and environmental performance have and will continue to increase the recycling technical challenge
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