Companies, associations and specialists demand laws and incentives to encourage the reuse of abandoned materials in yards and old irons. Brazil recycles only 1.5% of old and crashed cars.
Automotive recycling has advanced in Brazil, but is far from ideal. Although the country has doubled the recycling volume of old and crashed cars over the past decade, it now reuses only 1.5% of rotting carcasses and rusted parts abandoned in yards and junkyards across the country, according to projections by the United States. Syndinesfa. It is a paltry percentage, and the lowest in the world among the most developed economies, within a market with 35 million cars in circulation. Of which more than half approaches retirement, with more than 15 years of use.
In Argentina, Japan and the United States, for example, the recycling rate ranges from 80% to 95%. In Denmark, Sweden and Norway, it is 100%. Regulation for disassembly and use of licit reuse parts would be an engine for the national economy, according to the National Association of Remanufactured Auto Parts.
Discreetly, some initiatives are already beginning to emerge in this direction. The insurance market, for example, already offers cheaper policies, as long as the use of parts from companies registered with Detram is authorized. In addition to the financial incentive, it is an opportunity for insurance inclusion. Only 30% of the Brazilian fleet is insured.
The remanufactured sector has, through Anrap, been battling for years with governments in search of tax incentives for the development of the sector. The gradual increase of the old national fleet recommends urgent measures regarding the correct, rational and profitable destination of the damage caused.
The so-called automotive scrap not only suggests financial benefits, but, recycled, provides environmental protection. During disassembly, fluids and other damaged items obtain correct environmental destination. The process reduces the risks of soil and water contamination. In addition, it eliminates the problem of abandonment, which poses a threat to public health, by the proliferation of some diseases, such as dengue. Degraded or weather-exposed cars can become breeding grounds for even deadly mosquitoes.
