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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…

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

• Updated: 21 December 2022

Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) will be abolished, saving the taxpayer at least £100 million and helping to fund frontline officers to cut crime.

• Updated: 13 November 2025

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

• Updated: 14 May 2025

Tell DVLA if your vehicle has been damaged, written off and then scrapped by your insurance company

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

Bingo clubs across Britain are celebrating the scrapping of bingo duty as UK tax minister Dan Tomlinson and the Bingo Association’s Paul Swindon joined players in London.

• Updated: 22 December 2025

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

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

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

• Updated: 6 September 2019