the countrys first organised vehicle recycler and started operations at its fiveacre greater noida facility around june 2018 unlike the traditional scrap yards the process at cero is automated where all the liquids are sucked out into separate containers and then sent to authorised recyclers airbags are blown up and engines bored to avoid reuse cero recycles around 100 vehicles a month and will open a facility in chennai next month other cities on its radar are bengaluru hyderabad kolkata and mumbai we have designed this to be sustainable and profitable says sumit issar managing director of mahindra accelo he adds that cero is looking at recycling 7080 of a vehiclecero claims to offer rates comparable with those offered by scrap dealers that could be a big factor in convincing car owners to choose cero considering that for most people money could trump environmental concernsthe union government has been working on a scrappage policy for a while questions sent to nitin gadkari minister for road transport and highways were unansweredthe delhi government had in august 2018 announced guidelines for vehicle scrapping among the requirements is a scrap yard of at least 9000 sq ft in a nonresidentialcommercial area and equipment for depolluting vehicles which makes the scrap dealers of mayapuri and such places ineligible the existing scrap yard hubs will anyway not able to handle the sheer volume of elvs in the coming years the biggest problem in recycling is space it now happens in the heart of cities recycling scientifically needs space says ns mohan ram advisor to tvs motors and author of a book on vehicle recycling he believes automakers should issue dismantling instructions soon after the launch of a modelowing to delhis alarming pollution levels the supreme court in october banned the plying of diesel vehicles older than 10 years and petrol vehicles older than 15 years in the national capital region the order was in line with a national green tribunal directive of april 2015these are cityspecific norms says anumita roychowdhury executive director of research at the centre for science for environment and obsolete vehicles will be taken to other cities to bypass the rules central to the scrappage policy should be norms on the recyclability of components which is the first step in sustainability we should close the entire loop for it to work adds roychowdhuryindia could learn from the recycling policies in the european union japan china and korea the eu mandates that 95 of the weight of an elv should be recycled while japan has specific requirements for recycling of airbags and automobile residue vehicles owners in japan also have to pay a recycling fee while buying a new carthe government should mandate that every manufacturer sets up one or two recycling facilities says shekhar viswanathan vicechairman of toyota kirloskar motor then the pricing of vehicles will encompass that costthis is one way to enforce extended producer responsibility epr india introduced epr in its plastic waste management rules 2016 according to which plastic