Government contemplates to set up 10 recycling plants for used cars by 2014

With increasing number of low-budget cars and positive shift in purchasing capacity of Indians today, we observe rise in the vehicle population which leads to the problem of old and unusable vehicles. The out-of-date vehicles are being sold as scrap and the government is taking necessary steps to make use of the unused vehicles by introducing around ten modern recycling centres by 2014, where the useful parts of the vehicles will be reused and the waste will be taken care of. A senior official from the Ministry of heavy vehicles is reported to have said that despite the marked growth in the auto industry, there has been no mechanism in India to take care of the redundant material unlike the developed countries.

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The Global Automotive Research Center (GARC) at Oragdum in Chennai in association with SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) has unveiled a recycling and dismantling demonstration center to educate the masses on the importance of the process on Thursday and believed to have remarked on the occasion that this is just the beginning of many more to follow to reach their target of 10 such units by the end of 2014. It is also speculated that the modern facilities and technologies are going to be imported from the western countries to recycle the metal and the plastic parts of the unused cars.

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The recycling centres are going to begin their operation with the two-wheelers which account for the 80 % of the vehicle population on the Indian roads and by weight cause 40 % of the vehicle population, which will be upgraded to the four –wheelers in the later stage. As of now, no regulations on the non-useable automobiles have been dictated, like in the Europe and other western countries. Most of the old vehicles in India are sold as scrap by weight and then in turn dismantled and then the auto parts are sold separately. However, this process leads to high pollution and low recovery.

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