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Recycling of materials in vehicles is today mainly focused on metallic materials, because a vehicle is mostly made up of metallic materials. However, the plastic materials in a vehicle are rarely recycled due to that they have a lower value, which means that a plastic from new raw material, i.e. made from crude oil or gas, is cheaper. Another reason why recycling of plastics from used vehicles does not take place to such a large extent is that the plastics come in hundreds of varieties, which makes it difficult to divide the materials into different types for recycling.

This feasibility study shall identify feasible, sustainable, technical and business opportunities to increase the recycling rate of interior plastic through increased disassembly and thus cleaner material flows, which in turn provide higher quality of the recycled plastic. The end goal is for the plastic to be of such high quality that the material can return to the same or similar newly manufactured products in a vehicle interior.

More specifically, the goal of the feasibility study is:

1) To lay the foundation for increased recycling of plastics in the automotive industry via increased dismantling and cooperation between vehicle manufacturers and the dismantling industry.

2) That two years after the end of the project, at least one "smart loop" of interior plastic must have been established where a vehicle dismantler on a commercial basis delivers clean material streams to a material supplier who then delivers to a truck manufacturer.

If the results from the preliminary study demonstrate a market potential, a continuation project will be designed where the consortium is expanded with future steps in the value chain with material recyclers and component manufacturers to demonstrate and verify the business model and the material flow from component in used vehicle to component in new vehicle.

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