What does VRP stand for?

Under the auspices of the United States Council for Automotive Research, and in concert with the Vehicle Recycling Partnership LLC, a Lead-Free Solder Validation Test Plan has been developed for suppliers of audio components, instrument clusters, engine controls and other electronics components to use in meeting the requirements for all products manufactured by Chrysler, Ford and GM.

Another North American-based effort is being led by the Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP), which is largely funded by North America's automakers.

Claudia Duranceau, senior research engineer at Ford and long time participant in the United States Council for Automotive Research's (USCAR) Vehicle Recycling Partnership, puts it this way, "We have been working with the infrastructure for the last 10 years.

To expand automotive PVC recycling to the post-consumer sphere, Geon is working with the Vehicle Recycling Partnership of Detroit's Big Three to develop a pilot program in dismantling cars and sending vinyl parts through the Waxman-Parma-Hematite network.

The Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, the Vehicle Recycling Partnership of USCAR and the American Plastics Council have signed a five-year, multi-million-dollar, cost-shared Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) designed to maximize cost-effective recycling of end-of-life vehicles.

The Big Three, through their Vehicle Recycling Partnership, have even created a Vehicle Recycling Development Center in Highland Park, Mich.

The project was the result of the Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP), begun by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors in 1998.

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