How can we give waste a new status to accelerate its treatment across Europe?

Today, almost 95% of a vehicle is recycled.
In reality, the figure is 85% if we exclude the 10% attributed to “recovery” (energy recovered by burning vehicle parts). Of the 85% of materials that are recycled or reused, many undergo “downcycling” (recycling for lower-quality uses).

The rise of electric vehicles is “mechanically” reducing the share of the use phase in a vehicle’s lifecycle carbon footprint, since these vehicles no longer consume fossil fuels. Vehicle recycling therefore makes a greater contribution to the vehicle’s overall footprint, while opening up new opportunities to transform recycling—until now largely “small-scale and local”—into a genuine European industry.

This transformation will require cross-border flows, representing a fundamental shift for the automotive industry.

Alongside Movin'On and Michelin, Saint-Gobain, Solvay and Thales are also involved in this project, presented here by Patrice Kefalas, Michelin’s Director of Innovation, and Pierre-Edouard Sorel, Movin'On’s Director of Development.