Disposal of automobile shredder residue, considering mixed plastic part of the light fraction

In the last few decades the number of vehicles on the roads increased in a great extent and not surprisingly also the number of car wrecks increased simultaneously. These car wrecks representing a significant gross and volume of garbage contain hazardom materials among others, hence it needs to be handled. That requires a complex processing system. European Union directives and home regulations (in Hungary) give the adequate legal background to handle this special and problematic waste effectively. The technological background for recovering and reusing as clear substance and as much component as possible is provided by the development of the shredder and the after-coming separator technology. This technique is undergoing constant development. Disposal must in the first place be organized in such a way as to create environmentally-friendly solution opportunities, in compliance with the statutory requirements using the latest state of the art, in order to close the relevant material cycle. The most problematic fraction is shredder light fraction, it is about 20% of the grinded wrecks. The purpose of this paper is to present the environmentally-friendly disposal of vehicle wrecks, in particularly such disposal of non-metallic automobile shredder residue (ASR). ASR consists essential of plastic materials (60%), glass/sand, i.e. mineral substances, textiles/leather/wood, together with paint dust/rust and residual metals. The main aim is to change the present practice: lower the volume of waste getting into the landfill.