From resource recovery to circular economy – a brief analysis of EU regulatory proposals on vehicle recycling design requirements and end-of-life vehicle management

according to statistics, more than six million cars in europe reach the end of their service life every year. recently, the european commission issued regulations on vehicle design cycle requirements and end-of-life vehicles (end-of-life). vehicles (elv) management regulations propose stricter rules for vehicle design, production, and scrapping processes to promote the realization of a circular…