How a Volvo truck is recycled
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21, September, 2011
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kiran
Volvo trucks are part of a life cycle in which material from EOL trucks is used in new vehicles. What's more? The environmental benefits are impressive. As much as 1/3 of the total weight of a new truck is accounted for by recycled material. This Volvo FH (2002) has covered 1,000,000 kilometers and its service life is over. The workers follow a dismantling manual that Volvo produced back in the 1990s. The vehicle is then stripped methodically. All the environmentally hazardous liquids are removed from the truck. When the scrappers have finished their work, 90% of all material will have been utilized. Anything that can be sold on the used parts market is carefully labeled to enable tracing. The engine is too worn and will be melted down. The metal will then be used for new engines. All the material that is removed is sorted individually: Iron, Aluminum, Brass, Plastic, Copper and Selenium. It's all reused again. Nothing goes into the landfills. The same thing happens to many new trucks.