Materials recovery facilities (MRFs) play a critical role in material recycling. Today’s MRFs face numerous challenges, including uncertainty in market dynamics, contamination driven by the increasing use of single-stream (co-mingled) recovery, inability to handle the ever-changing mix of the products they receive, and undercapitalization.

Electric vehicles (EVs) will transform the automobile industry. Approximately 70% of an EV’s parts are completely different from those used in a traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle. Alloy compositions of materials such as aluminum and steel are likely to be different from ICE. High-value materials such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel are especially important to EV production.

The U.S. is the largest remanufacturer in the world, supporting 180,000 full-time jobs and generating nearly $12 billion in exports. At the product level, remanufacturing can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 79 to 99% in certain sectors. It can also reduce the new material requirements by 80 to 98% when compared to new build production.

Strategic Interest Group Objectives

• Shared Challenges

• Potential Areas of Collaboration

• Discussion on the Pulse of the Industry

• Benchmarking

• Information Sharing

Anticipated Time Commitment:

• 1 hour per month