BDSV says German scrap industry can handle old diesel vehicles

The Düsseldorf, Germany-based Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Stahlrecycling- und Entsorgungsunternehmen (BDSV) says Germany’s ferrous scrap industry has sufficient “environmentally friendly processing capacity” to undertake the scrapping of vehicles with older diesel engines (EURO 1-4), deemed as polluting and undesirable as part of of the German government’s plan to diel with diesel emissions.

The scrap recycling association, including its Automobile Repatriation Division (FAR), also is endorsing the government’s decision that older diesel vehicles “must be safely removed from the market if the automobile manufacturers pay them an environmental bonus.” The associations say the plan staves off the possibility of the vehicles being exported. The older diesel models, says the BDSV, “must not further pollute the environment in Africa or Eastern Europe.”

The BDSV further urges the German government to clarify that depollution and dismantling activities must be undertaken “only by certified dismantling companies.” Adds the group, “It is important that older diesel vehicles are recycled in an environmentally friendly manner and thus, in particular, valuable metal components are returned to the economic cycle as raw materials.”

Comments BDSV Managing Director Rainer Cosson, “Our car recyclers and steel recycling companies are available as service providers for the implementation of the German government’s diesel concept. An important prerequisite for obtaining the environmental bonus is the issue of the recycling certificate by the certified dismantling companies.”