A Study on Life Cycle System Aiming at a Long Life Product : Disassembly Analysis and Environmental Assessment of End of Life Vehicle

Abstract

Recently, in order to consumer society shifts to Recycling-based Society, it is required for products' parts to be used long-term. Therefore we aim to prove the effectiveness for the protection of the environment and the resource by promoting reuse parts. In this study, from this point of view, we promote reuse parts in the case of recycling of End-of Life Vehicle (ELV). In this report, we paid attention to the light cars in the increasing tendency. We actually dismantled the light car and with the car disassembling data, we estimate the Life Cycle Assessment of cars. As a result, we proposed the guidelines about car's Disassembly-Oriented Design, and showed that using reuse parts is effective for resolving problems about environment and energy waste. And we also show that increasing kinds of reuse parts of the light car decreased environmental load more than now.