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• Updated: 21 December 2022

Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it

• How to scrap your vehicle

  When your vehicle has reached the end of its usefulness, you must get it…

• Where you can scrap your vehicle

  Find an authorised treatment facility (ATF) where your vehicle can be…

• Insurance write-offs

  When you make an insurance claim because your vehicle is damaged, your…

Details of the new offence of purchasing scrap metal for cash and how the new offence will be implemented from 3 December 2012.

• Updated: 23 October 2012

Check the tariff classification for bark and production waste, scrap, rejects and residues.

• Updated: 14 May 2025

Guidance and information for local authorities on licencing and suitability of dealers, chargeable fees, definition of terms and other issues around this 2013 act.

• Updated: 2 October 2013

T9 exemption allows you to treat scrap metal for handling or recovery by sorting, grading, shearing by manual feed, baling, crushing or cutting with handheld equipment.

• Updated: 1 July 2025

Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.

• Updated: 6 September 2019

Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped

• Updated: 2 March 2023

If you make supplies of second hand goods, works of art or antiques and collectors items you can choose to use this simplified margin scheme to account for VAT.

• Updated: 23 December 2021