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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…

This publication is intended for Valuation Officers. It may contain links to internal resources that are not available through this version.

• Updated: 30 July 2025

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

• Updated: 6 September 2019

Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle

• Updated: 21 December 2022

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

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

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

Information, deeds and plans relating to the compulsory purchase of properties in the city of Birmingham via the General Vesting Declarations for pre 2019.

• Updated: 20 January 2022

How to apply to be an authorised treatment facility (ATF) for ELVs, comply with ELV regulations and meet recycling targets.

• Updated: 2 November 2017

Licensing authorities must confirm a tax check has been completed by applicants renewing taxi driver, private hire and scrap metal licences, or applying for a licence held with another authority.

• Updated: 11 September 2023