Recycling End-of-Life Cars Now Possible
Porsche, BASF, and BEST have successfully replaced fossil raw materials with circular automotive waste to produce new plastics.
A pilot project demonstrates the recyclability of high-performance plastics from automotive shredder residues (ASR) combined with renewable raw materials.
- The project uses a gasification process, a special type of chemical recycling.
- The goal is to source less primary material and increase the proportion of recycled materials in vehicles.
The chemically recycled material was used in the manufacturing process for steering wheels.
The project validates the viability of new sources of plastics and applications for chemical recycling in components.
Author's summary: Recycling end-of-life cars is now possible through chemical recycling.