Development of a Complex and Efficient Recycling Strategy for a Range of End-Of-Life Products

The old-car directive of the EU causes great problems regarding its national and international application. The following problems occur:

• Taking back cars free of charge reduces a potential positive residual value for former users.
• A surcharged utilisation lump-sum can increase the purchase price.
• A falsification within the utilisation market can occur.
• Binding guidelines upon utilisation concerning matters of ecology are inadequately described in the European context.

One aim of the project is to raise the share of the use of recycled products and materials in relation to new products and materials (in the mechanical engineering industry 30 to 270 billion German marks). The prequisites were created to enable an efficient strategy for the preparation, implementation, and post-processing of recycling processes in small and mid-sized companies. For this reason an analysis and benchmarking method was developed. The scheme was applied on old products of vehicle construction and the mechanical engineering industry. Two main targets were pursued:

• The competent and comprehensive valuation of the current condition of an old product or old product line, especially considering its environmental impacts.
• Development of the basis for a technical-organisational as well as an ecological-economic justified strategy for the recycling of old products (here limited to two product categories - vehicle construction/Skoda, production of assembly systems/SITEC)

Leadership

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Günter Binger,
  Chair of Installation- and Handling- Technology [Professur für Montage- und Handhabungstechnik]
• Prof. Dr. Edeltraud Guenther

Researcher

• Dipl.-Ing. Vera Farkavcová

Cooperation

• Prof. Dr.- Ing. habil. Günter Binger,
  Chair of Installation- and Handling-Technology [Professur für Montage- und Handhabungstechnik]
• Prof. Ing., CSc. Antonin Zelenka,
  Department of Management and Economics of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Term

09/2000 - 08/2001

Financing

Herbert Quandt-Stiftung over Herbert Quandt-Support Programme of the Dresden University of Technology / Academical Office for Foreign Students [Akademisches Auslandsamt]

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