Advances in the Treatment of Waste Derived from Electronic Components: The Future of Cars: An Assessment through Raw Materials
A. Ortego, A. Valero, I. García-Díaz, F.A. López, M. Iglesias-Émbil
A conventional car needs more than 50 different types of metals, being critical most of them. In addition, the renovation of current cars for cleaner, safer and more comfortable ones will increase the critical metal demand to manufacture some components: batteries, LEDs for lighting, permanent magnets for motors, electronic units and different kinds of sensors. As a result, the availability of enough raw materials is a matter of concern for the automobile industry so new approaches from resource efficiency must be urgently applied. This chapter presents a review of the car´s resource efficiency from those metals needed to be manufactured with special attention to those used in electronic components. To accomplish with this purpose, three main goals have been established in this study: (1) analyzing car compositions and the most strategical metals for the automotive industry, (2) examining possible raw material bottlenecks before 2050, and ultimately (3) studying the effectiveness of current recycling policies and alternatives from eco-design.
Keywords
Electronic Components, Car Industry
Published online 8/10/2023, 57 pages
Citation: A. Ortego, A. Valero, I. García-Díaz, F.A. López, M. Iglesias-Émbil, Advances in the Treatment of Waste Derived from Electronic Components: The Future of Cars: An Assessment through Raw Materials, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 149, pp 311-367, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902639-9
Part of the book on New Materials for a Circular Economy
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