In eight years, vehicles junked across India could fill 21 Marina beaches


By 2025, more than 21 million vehicles all over India will have reached the end of their life and will be up for disposal. So who’s going deal with the scrap and how? 

At present, scrapped two-wheelers and four-wheelers are mostly taken apart at small-scale units in the unorganized sector. They salvage what they can and dump the rest, polluting the environment. But as the years go by, the volumes will swell and disposal will become a problem. India produced 25 million vehicles from April 2017 to March 2018, according to official data. More than 75% of them were two-wheelers, while the number of cars produced was nearly three million. 

In eight years, scrap from junked vehicles would fill some 31,000 acres — nearly 21 times the size of the Marina, the world’s second longest beach. So, say experts, it is high time the state set up automobile recycle parks. 

Until the 1980s, vehicle ownership was limited and very few were offered for scrapping, says Captain N S Mohan Ram, whose book on recycling vehicles was released at Anna University on Wednesday. In his book, he says small units, in areas such as Pudupet in Chennai, Delhi’s Mayapuri, and Bengaluru’s Shivajinagar Gujri, used primitive methods to dismantle junked vehicles, and ran a thriving business of second-hand spare parts. .....Read more

 

Source web page: Times of India


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