Car makers fined for cartel behaviour around recycling

[rodericb]

article said:

The European Commission (EC) and the UK competition watchdog have both issued fines totalling more than $940 million to a large number of dozen carmakers, plus the peak bodies for automotive brands in those regions, after finding they engaged in cartel behaviour.

The amount of "recyclability" of cars was something I remember one brand (MB if I remember correctly) carrying in their advertising many many years ago and which quietly disappeared. One of those small things which comes and goes and you don't notice it. But someone somewhere has noticed it and now a bunch of car manufacturers have been caught out.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/news/more-than-...

I wonder what the dynamics of this "cartel behaviour" were. Did the market research find that car buyers couldn't give a pinch of st about what happens to their cast-off cars and not going through the exercise of formulating an extensive end-of-life management program for their products saved the manufacturers a tonne of cost? Yeah probably.....

That's not to say that what happens to the cars at end-of-life is not an issue - there's a lot of potential in a car with regards to recycling the materials contained within them.

[biggbn]

rodericb said:

article said:

The European Commission (EC) and the UK competition watchdog have both issued fines totalling more than $940 million to a large number of dozen carmakers, plus the peak bodies for automotive brands in those regions, after finding they engaged in cartel behaviour.

The amount of "recyclability" of cars was something I remember one brand (MB if I remember correctly) carrying in their advertising many many years ago and which quietly disappeared. One of those small things which comes and goes and you don't notice it. But someone somewhere has noticed it and now a bunch of car manufacturers have been caught out.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/news/more-than-...

I wonder what the dynamics of this "cartel behaviour" were. Did the market research find that car buyers couldn't give a pinch of st about what happens to their cast-off cars and not going through the exercise of formulating an extensive end-of-life management program for their products saved the manufacturers a tonne of cost? Yeah probably.....

That's not to say that what happens to the cars at end-of-life is not an issue - there's a lot of potential in a car with regards to recycling the materials contained within them.

I read good old Mercedes Benz were the whistle blowers to avoid punitive measures against themselves?

[Lo-Fi]

"a large number of dozen carmakers"

Alrighty then.