Bureau of Mines Research on Recycling Scrapped Automobiles

摘要

Discarded automobiles represent the greatest single resource of reusable metals, plastics, and rubber in the United States. The report presents results of Bureau of Mines research, conducted from 1965 to 1983, on separating and recovering useful materials from the scrapped hulks, using old and new metallurgical techniques combined with standard scrapyard methods. The Bureau determined the materials composition of three composite cars designated as circa 1960, mid-1970's and early 1980's, and used these cars to study smokeless incineration and hand-sorting techniques.