Fig. 5: Environmental benefits of resource recovery from ELTs in China.
From: Resource, economic, and carbon benefits of end-of-life trucks’ urban mining in China
a Energy demand for Fe production; b Energy demand for Al production; c Energy demand for Cu production; d Carbon emissions from Fe production; e Carbon emissions from Al production; f Carbon emissions from Cu production. Subfigures 5d-5f show the trends in carbon emissions from primary production and recycling of target metals under both fixed factors (bright color) and decreasing factors (dim color). The shaded areas represent the uncertainty range (±20%) of the energy use and carbon emission factors.
