Recycling and recyclability index for end-of-life vehicle jeepneys in the Philippines

The Philippine government launched its Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program last 2017 to modernize the country’s public transportation system. Part of this program is a sustainable scrappage scheme to handle about 200,000 jeepneys when they are eventually replaced by modern transportation units. In order to provide a technical basis for this scheme, a university-based research team dismantled a typical public utility jeepney. After weighing and classifying the different parts, the jeepney was found to be composed of about 80.44% by weight of ferrous metal alloys while the balance consisted of aluminum, copper, rubber, plastic, wood and oil-based fluids. The jeepney’s recyclability index of 92.50% and the recoverability index of 93.48% were determined for the first time using the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 22,628 criteria. Using the available junkshop prices, the jeepney’s estimated scrappage value of about Php30,000 was assumed when the preliminary feasibility study of a proposed scrappage facility with a capacity of 15,600 units per year was conducted.