Shredded plastic materials recovered from retired cars and trucks can be used to manufacture new vehicle parts and other plastic products. Argonne researcher Sam Jody displays items from shredder residue, recovered polyethylene and polypropylene, and a knee bolster manufactured from recovered plastics. Download the fact sheet, "Recovering Plastics from Retired Vehicles," at www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/R/560.pdf. Visit Argonne's Transportation Technology R&D Center at www.transportation.anl.gov.

Individual plastics are separated for recycling using froth flotation, a process separating water-shedding (hydrophobic) materials from water-attracting (hydrophilic) materials. Download the fact sheet, "Recovering Plastics from Retired Vehicles," at www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/R/560.pdf. Visit Argonne's Transportation Technology R&D Center at www.transportation.anl.gov.

"Black gold," in the form of pure separated plastic emerges from a plastics separation tank at Argonne's demonstration facility for recycling materials from end-of-life vehicles. View more about Argonne's transportation research at www.transportation.anl.gov. Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory.