autofluff
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- A mixture of non-ferrous materials used in automobiles, difficult to recycle.
- 1995, American Chemical Society, Preprints of papers, volume 40, numbers 3-4:
- When old cars and trucks are sent to scrap yards for shredding to recover ferrous and non-ferrous metals, large quantities of non-metallic waste, referred to as autofluff, are generated.
- 1997, A. V. Bridgwater, D. G. B. Boocock, Developments in thermochemical biomass conversion, volume 2, page 960:
- […] heterogeneous organic matter such as, residual biomass, classified urban wastes (RDF), autofluff, residual non-recyclable plastics, rubbers as well as other industrial organic wastes.