Physically recycled post-consumer recyclate from end-of-life vehicles. Successful Pilot Test

The German automotive industry is currently developing solutions to meet the challenging requirements of the European End-of-Life Vehicles Directive, which is currently being revised to be replaced by a regulation. According to the current draft regulation , 25 percent of the plastic weight in a new vehicle should consist of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) – a quarter of which should come from end-of-life vehicles. Together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Audi has used a physical recycling cascade to recover high-purity PC/ABS from shredded end-of-life vehicles on a pilot scale, which is also suitable for reuse in vehicle interiors.