ARN, the Dutch end-of-life vehicle recycling organization, has published its Layman’s Report, detailing how the organization used €1 million in grant funding awarded by the European Life+ programme, intended to help optimize production lines at ARN’s post-shredder technology (PST) plant.
ARN published the report, available here, in late November, explaining how the grant was spent and the results achieved.
According to ARN, the opening of the PST plant in 2011 represented ARN’s first steps toward achieving the EU recycling target for end-of-life vehicles: 85 percent reuse and 10 percent recovery. The Life+ grant was spent on optimising the existing line and on new machines for metal recovery, ARN says. Thanks to these new systems, every year 250 tonnes of copper are recovered from the shredder waste, ARN says. The organization reports that it spent another part of the grant on energy-saving measures, resulting in a 30 percent reduction in energy consumption. The Life+ ARN project ran from September 2011 to September 2015.
In 2013 and 2014, annual production of the PST plant amounted to 25,000 and 36,000 tonness, respectively. In
2015, ARN says, it expects to process a total of 42,500 tonnes.
LIFE+ is a grant programme funded by the European Union to develop and implement European nature and environmental policy. ARN’s LIFE+ project for improving the recycling performance of Dutch end-of-life vehicles supports the Dutch government in complying with its European car recycling obligations.