End of Life Vehicle Recycling

There are two national compliance schemes currently dealing with the recycling of End of Life Vehicles. The Company you require is dependent on the make of vehicle you wish to recycle.

Cartakeback

Cartakeback are the official recycling partners for the following vehicle manufacturers:
Vehicles Recycled by Cartakeback 

Cartakeback have paired with an Authorised Treatment Facility in Stornoway:

Highland Metal Recycling
Bennadrove
Isle of Lewis
HS2 0DL

Cartakeback will accept vehicles delivered in to this facility free of charge. If you require your vehicle to be uplifted and the collection point is within 30 miles as the crow flies from this facility there will be a charge payable. However if the collection point is more than 30 miles away from this facility, you are entitled to a free uplift of your vehicle.

Helpline: 08000 717191

Email: info@cartakeback.com

Web: www.cartakeback.com

Rewarding Recycling

Rewarding Recycling are the official recycling partners for the following vehicle manufacturers:
Vehicles Recycled by Rewarding Recycling

Helpline: 0800 542 2002

e-Mail: info@rewardingrecycling.co.uk

Web: www.rewardingrecycling.co.uk

Rewarding Recycling have established a Take Back Point in Stornoway:

Lava’s Garage Ltd
Marybank
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis
HS2 0DF

Rewarding Recycling will accept vehicles delivered in to this facility free of charge. If you require your vehicle to be uplifted and the collection point is within 30 miles as the crow flies from this facility there will be a charge payable. However if the collection point is more than 30 miles away from this facility, you are entitled to a free uplift of your vehicle.

Helpline: 0800 542 2002

e-Mail: info@rewardingrecycling.co.uk

Web: www.rewardingrecycling.co.uk

Additional Information

Car owners are able to have their vehicle scrapped without charge under a new government scheme which came into force on January 2007. If a vehicle is more than 30 miles from the nearest facility in the manufacturer's network it will be eligible for collection by either of the two service providers free of charge.

In accordance with the End of Life Vehicle Regulations 2005, vehicles registered after July 1st 2002, which are complete and do not contain additonal waste will quailify for free-take-back when delivered to a vehicle manufacturer approved authorised treatment facility.

A complete vehicle is one which contains its essential components, in particular, but not limited to, the engine, coachwork, transmission, catalytic converter (if fitted) and wheels.

Authorised Treatment Facilities (or ATF's) are sites that have been licensed by SEPA, to de-pollute end of life vehicles as per the standards set out in the ELV Directive. Only these sites are permitted to issue last owners with a DVLA Certificate of Destruction. A Certificate of Destruction (COD) is issued by the DVLA to prove that a vehicle has been scrapped in a lawful and environmentally sound manner and will enable deregistration of the vehicle from the DVLA database. Without this certificate last owners may be subject to fines under new continued licensing regulations.

Motor manufacturers are responsible for providing last owners of end of life vehicles with an accessible free-take-back network for qualifying vehicles. The regulations apply to end of life vehicles, which are in class M1, N1, and three wheeled vehicles, i.e. passenger vehicles with 9 seats or less with a revenue weight of less than 3500kg and 3-wheeled vehicles. Motorbikes (including motorbike-based tricycles) and passenger vehicles with revenue weight over 3500kg or those that have more than 9 seats are not covered by the regulations.