Descrizione del progetto
Economia circolare per l’industria automobilistica
L’elettronica automobilistica rappresenta una delle fonti più preziose di materie prime critiche. Tuttavia, l’industria automobilistica è poco coinvolta nel recupero delle materie prime critiche dai veicoli a fine vita (ELV, end-of-life vehicles). Tra i diversi ostacoli all’implementazione di pratiche di economia circolare vi sono i regolamenti nonché fattori relativi a mercato, tecnologia, cultura, società e genere. Inoltre, nonostante il tentativo di transizione verso una mobilità sostenibile, il settore automobilistico dipende ancora pesantemente dalle risorse naturali per quanto concerne la produzione di nuove auto. Il progetto TREASURE, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà un’analisi di scenario e uno strumento di simulazione per valutare le implicazioni positive e negative delle pratiche e dei principi dell’economia circolare nella produzione di automobili al fine di favorire l’adozione del recupero di materie prime critiche e l’economia circolare in questo settore.
Obiettivo
Car electronics is one of the most valuable source of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) in cars. What it sounds so strange is the lack of interest of car manufacturers (and the whole automotive sector in general) towards the recovery of these valuable components from End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs). Maybe, the complex set of barriers (e.g. regulatory, governance-based, market, technological, cultural, societal, gender, etc.) companies must cope with when implementing Circular Economy (CE) are making very difficult its adoption, by limiting potential benefits. All these data show as, even if car manufacturers are investing big capitals trying to shift their business towards more sustainable mobility concepts, the sectorial transition towards CE seems to be far from its completion. Especially at End-of-Life (EoL) phase, there are still many issues to be solved in order to functionally recover materials from cars (e.g. reuse recovered materials for the same purpose they were exploited originally) and the dependence from natural resources when producing new cars (even if electric/hybrid/fuel cell -powered) is still too high. This mandatory systemic transformation requires to all companies/sectors to redefine products lifecycles since the beginning, by considering CE already before to design them. To this aim, the TREASURE project wants to develop a scenario analysis simulation tool able to quantify positive and negative implications of CE, by leading the European automotive supply chain towards its full transition to CE.
Campo scientifico
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinatore
20133 Milano
Italia