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Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
Scrap your vehicle at an authorised treatment facility if it’s reached the end of its life and you want to dispose of it
Find an authorised scrapyard where you can take your vehicle to be scrapped
For operators of a vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility accepting no more than 750 tonnes of waste vehicles a year.
Standard rules SR2015 No 13: 25kte vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
These rules will allow the operator to operate a metal recycling site and a vehicle depollution and dismantling facility at a specified location.
The U16 exemption allows you to reuse the parts from depolluted end-of-life vehicles in other vehicles.
Guidance for manufacturers and importers.
Standard rules to operate vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling (authorised treatment) facility.
Standard rules SR2015 No 18: metal recycling, vehicle storage, depollution and dismantling facility.
How councils and national park authorities should deal with the removal of abandoned vehicles from land in the open air and roads.
The CMA has provisionally found that Copart’s completed purchase of Hills Motors raises competition concerns in the supply of vehicle salvage services in the UK.
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