Automobile recycling for remanufacturing in China: A systematic review on recycling legislations, models and methods

Compared with the recycling of scrapped automobile materials, the remanufacturing is a circular economy model with higher comprehensive benefits. However, the current development of China's scrapped automobiles remanufacturing industry is facing the bottleneck challenge of relatively low recycling rate of scrapped automobiles. By reviewing more than one-hundred peer-reviewed related papers, we identify the current challenges faced by China's scrapped automobiles recycling for remanufacturing and contribute to three aspects. First, through comparative research, we found that China's legislation on scrapped automobiles recycling can be divided into three categories, but the system is unclear. Second, the dynamic evolutionary perspective reveals that the research on the recycling model of scrapped automobiles present characteristics of integration, and these models can be classified into two categories and seven types. Third, we propose a method system to promote the recycling of scraped automobiles according to the evolution of value and the change of core driving force, and summarizes six key recycling methods, but the implementation of some methods faces challenges such as information barriers. This work reveals the factors at both the micro and macro level of automobile recycling for remanufacturing, which can help researchers to create a framework for empirical studies.(c) 2023 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Compared with recycling scrapped automobile materials, remanufacturing is a more beneficial circular economy model. However, China's scrapped automobiles remanufacturing industry is facing the challenge of low recycling rate. Through reviewing peer-reviewed papers, we identified the challenges and proposed a method system to promote recycling, including classification of recycling models and key methods. This work provides insights at both micro and macro levels for researchers to create an empirical study framework.