End of Life Vehicles Directive

EC 1907/2006). As the name implies, it deals with the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemical substances. The new law entered into force on 1 June 2007. The aim of REACH is to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances.156 The ELV (End of Life Vehicles) directive aims to reduce the amount of environmentally unfriendly waste from ELVs. Similar initiatives are well developed in Japan and are evolving in China157 and many other countries. In the United States, at the state level, some states (for example, Maine and California) are adopting material restrictions on PVC plasticizers and certain brominated FRs. 

Abstract This chapter introduces the European Union (EU) and discusses some of its directives and regulations. Today the EU has some of the most progressive environmental policies in the world that extend to all areas of environmental protection. Some of these areas are air pollution control, water protection, waste management, and the control of chemicals. This chapter includes information about the End of Life Vehicles Directive (ELV), the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS), and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE). The EU regulation called Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) is described too. 

This chapter provides a general description of the following European Directives the End of Life Vehicles Directive (ELV), the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS), and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE). 

A brief summary is provided for the EU s directives and regulation described in this chapter. The End of Life Vehicles Directive (ELV) addresses the problem of the end of life for automotive products. Each year these products generate tons of waste. In addition to reducing waste, the ELV Directive seeks to prevent pollution and make vehicle dismantling and recycling more environmentally friendly. 

The automotive industry has also directed efforts toward improving the recyclahUity of automotive plastics by change in automobile design. Efforts include designing components for ease of disassembly, as well as efforts to minimize the use of different resins and to ensure that all resins in a component are compatible with one another. One of the reasons for these changes, in addition to voluntary actions by manufacturers, is requirements in Europe that mandate that the auto industry provide a system for collection and recycling of vehicles at the end of their life. Currently, 74 to 80 percent of the weight of a typical vehicle is reused or recycled the End of Life Vehicle Directive requires that this amount be increased to 80 percent by 2006 and 85 percent by 2015. Furthermore, vehicles must increase their use of recycled materials. ... 

Nevertheless under the End of Life Vehicles Directive 200/53/EC (2005), adhesive suppliers are now required to provide statements regarding the composition to... 

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