Recycling End-of-Life Vehicles - An Issue for Policy Makers or the Free Market? 971120
Technology and economics have limited the degree to which old automobiles are recycled. For environmental reasons, European governments have adopted policies that will increase that rate of recycling. However, contrasting the economic, political, and environmental situations in North America and Europe reveals that an automobile recycling policy for the U.S. would be superfluous, costly, and not significantly beneficial at this time.
Citation: Ottinger, G., "Recycling End-of-Life Vehicles - An Issue for Policy Makers or the Free Market?," SAE Technical Paper 971120, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/971120. Download Citation
Author(s):
Gwen Ottinger
Pages: 11
Event:
SAE International Congress and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1997 Transactions - Journal of Passenger Cars-V106-6
Related Topics:
End-of-life vehicles
Recycling
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