Car recycling station inaugurated at landfill
MARIGOT--A presentation of a new 450,000-euro car recycling station was made Thursday, at the eco-landfill site in Grande Cayes where demonstrations were given of stripping down and de-polluting car wrecks with special equipment for parts that can be recycled.
Previously the landfill had no facility to deconstruct a car wreck from start to finish for recycling. In the past car wrecks were only crushed by independent contractors and shipped off-island.
The deconstruction process has now been made possible by the company Indra SAS Re-source Engineering Solutions, a pioneer in automobile recycling, which partners with car manufacturers Renault, Nissan etc.
Ten million cars reach the end of their lives in Europe and the new European Union (EU) target as of January, 2016, is 95 per cent of the car to be recycled, up from presently 82-85 per cent.
Managing Director of Verde SXM Patrick Villemin, the company that manages the landfill introduced the President of Indra SAS, Olivier Guadeau, who gave an overview of how “end of life vehicle†(ELV) centres operate; the company has 400 of them.
Inside the hangar, there are two independent work stations with special equipment, one to de-pollute the vehicle of oils and fuels, batteries and other hazardous waste, and the other station to remove the engine, transmission or other parts of the car that are difficult to remove Read more
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