Recycling of Aircraft: State of the Art in 2011

Table 1

Energy savings of recycled materials in comparison to virgin production and percentage of new metals produced by using recovered metals (source: Lund, 2000 [21], and BMRA, 2011 [22]).

Recycled materials	Separation techniques	Energy savings (%)	New metals produced by using recovered metals (%)
Steel	Hand sorting,; magnetic	62–74	42
Aluminum	Electrostatic,; Hand sorting,; Eddy current	95	39
Copper	Electrostatic,; Eddy current,; hand sorting	85	32
Lead	Gravity,; hand sorting	60–65	74
Zinc	Gravity,; hand sorting,; flotation	60	20
Paper	Flotation,; hand sorting	64	N/A
Plastics	Electrostatic,; Eddy current,; hand sorting	80	N/A