| Author: | Erik Rydén |
| Title: | Car Scrap-Throw It Away? or Make It Pay? |
| Institution: | International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden |
| Date: | October 1995 |
| Advisor: | Thomas Lindhqvist |
| Key Words: | Extended Producer Responsibility, Complex Products, Car Scrap, Waste |
| How to Obtain: | International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
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| Abstract: | This dissertation evolves from problems related to the environment as the result of today's product-based society and especially the end-of-life management of cars. The purpose of the dissertation is to identify key elements in a number of car-scrapping approaches with the potential to meet the following three goals: 1) limitation of the littering from end-of-life cars in nature, 2) improvement of current end-of-life car management from an environmental and resource utilisation standpoint, 3) creation of steering-mechanisms fostering manufacturing of scrap-adapted cars. Special emphasis in the analysis has been placed on how the financing of the car-scrapping system can serve as a steering instrument for different interest groups. Based on the analysis, a model for financing end-of-life car management has been developed. The aim of the model is to foster attainment of the above-mentioned targets through an extended producer responsibility. |