Input materials
Dismantled ELVs (End of Life Vehicles) are sold to shredder operators and are reduced to fist-size pieces by large rotating hammer mills. The shredder light fraction (SLF) is removed from the stream by suction, the intensity of which determines the amount and composition of the SLF.
SLF consists essentially of:
- Plastics/rubber (~60%)
- Glass/sand i.e. mineral substances (~15%)
- Textiles/leather/wood (~10%)
- Paint dust/rust (~10%)
- Residual metals (~5%)
Output fractions
- Ferrous metals
- Metals, cables and wires
- Fluff/organic fraction
