Publications
Recycling of composite materials
Composite materials are used in a wide range of applications such as automotive, aerospace and renewableenergy industries. But they have not been properly recycled, due to their inherent nature ofheterogeneity, in particular for the thermoset-based polymer composites. The current and future wastemanagement and environmental legislations require all engineering materials to be properly recoveredand recycled, from end-of-life (EOL) products such as automobiles, wind turbines and aircrafts.
Hong Kong Treaty to Impact Future Builds
SYBAss & The ship Recycling Convention
Pieter Kuiper (ARN Advisory), Chris van Hooren (SYBAss) and Robert van Tol (SYBAss) discuss an important recent development that links the shipbuilding industry to its distant relative, the ship-scrapping industry.
ARN Advisory assists Superyacht Builders Association with Ship Recycling Convention
Once it comes into effect, the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships will change the shipbuilding industry. The Superyacht Builders Association (SYBAss) has decided to investigate the potential effects of this proposed new legislation for the superyacht building industry. This study has been performed by ARN Advisory
The road map to reaching ELV targets
The European Union has thrown down a challenge to industry of reusing and recovering at least 95% of a car by January 2015. However, many challenges lie ahead over the next four years if this goal is to be achieved.
For example, there is a need for more effort to be invested in the recycling of automotive shredder residue (ASR). And clear definition of recycling and recovery quotas is also required.
Recycling of electric vehicle batteries
Challenges looming large in the headlights
Design for Recycling
Extended producer responsibility demands a greater awareness of the end-of-life phase of products that are put onto the market. Different industries take different approaches, depending on the product and the market characteristics. How has this evolved and can industries learn from each other, while taking into account these obvious differences?
BIR Plastics
Plastics recycling: a 'sunrise industry'.
A huge number of opportunities await the 'sunrise industry' of plastics recycling, the BIR Plastics Round-Table in Amsterdam was assured by its Chairman, Surendra Borad of Gemini Corporation NV in Belgium.
A stack of pancakes
Article in Public Service Review: Transport 23: "The Dutch recipe for scrapping scheme..."
Greener by design
End-of-life cars can only be entirely recycled with an itegrated approach that starts on the drawing board, believes Auto Recycling Nederland's Kasper Zom...