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The government has set voluntary targets for car manufacturers, dealers and dismantlers to promote recycling more cars 5 million that are discarded each year in Japan.
A schedule of increase from the scrapyard related cars that is recycled has been created on the basis of a Council report of the industrial structure, an advisory committee to the Minister of International Trade and Industry.
At present, the share in terms of weight is about 75 The government hopes to see the high level of 85 in 2002 and 95 in 2015, he will ask automakers to use materials and specifications that will allow at least 90 of an automobile recycling on all models from 2002.
Currently, reusable parts and other items are removed from cars scrapped, and the remainder is introduced into an industrial shredder After spraying and extraction of reusable resources, such as iron, dust mill is disposed in landfills.
The total volume of the shredder dust is taken to landfills in Japan is about 1 million to 1 2 million tons per year of this total, the cars scrapped representing 800 000-850 000 tonnes and the rest comes largely from domestic appliances, vending machines and other hackneyed lawyers intense recycling machines cars cite not only gains a more efficient use of resources and energy, but also expressed concerns about risks of shortages and the environment from landfills.
If the goals are achieved, the total volume of the mill dust can be reduced to about three-fifths of current levels by 2002 and a fifth of current levels by 2015.
The targets are not legally binding, but in 2000 the government will conduct surveys on education levels and publish annually the results If surveys show that progress is slow, the government will consider the introduction of relevant regulations .
Turning waste into fuel in response to the government's initiative, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association - an umbrella industry group - will soon begin to test new technologies for the removal of cars scrapped a project calls for the sort shredder dust finer, submit it to the heat treatment and solidifying to reduce the volume dust is then reprocessed into fuel gas for reuse as an energy resource.
The association provides other research, mainly in the materials processing technology discarded that do not give easily recyclable parts and hydrocarbon gas resources that can be used as fuel.
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