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Scrap car, commercial vehicle and truck de-pollution, recovery and recycling
Tough de-pollution and recovery targets are imposed on end of life cars, vans and other vehicles under the EU’s End of Life Vehicles Directive. Each vehicle must undergo detailed de-pollution by an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF) before the car can be scrapped.
Sims Metal Management recovers and recycles 100,000 end of life cars, vans and other vehicles through its UK network of over 20 Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATF’s).
Our regional hubs containing industrial sized shredders process and recycle 400,000 cars a year from the UK network of Sims Metal Management centres and other suppliers. An abandoned vehicles service is available to local authorities. Our aim is to provide a cost effective, environmentally sound and legislatively compliant service.
Abandoned cars being loaded ready for transport to a Sims Metal Management End of Life Vehicle depollution centre for recycling. Click here to find your nearest ELV depollution centre
Sims offers a collection service for abandoned and untaxed cars.
We collect and then place them in secure storage, for statutory periods, before they then enter our de-pollution and recycling process.
Sims works in partnership with other businesses to deliver this Abandoned Vehicle service throughout the UK.
We have developed a database system that records and monitors all information requirements relating to the collection of abandoned vehicles and provides automatic updates to key stakeholders and authorities.
Sims Metal Management is therefore ideally placed to offer Local Authorities solutions for the growing number of abandoned cars, vans and other vehicles littering our streets and countryside. Find your nearest Abandoned Car Service provider.
Sims Metal Management has acted proactively by investing in de-pollution technology in order to develop best practice recovery operations. Below is an animation providing information on how this is carried out, plus information on how cars and vehicles are subsequently recycled.
Scrap car depollution animation
View an interactive presentation on how Sims depollutes scrap cars and vehicles in our network of over 20 UK End of Life Vehicle (ELV) Centres. Follow on screen instructions to progress through each stage. Please note this animation may not be accessible for some viewers.
To place the above animation into your own website page, simply click here to view code which you can copy and paste into your web page.
Following de-pollution at an ELV Centre, scrap cars and vans are sent to one of Sims Metal Management's metal shredder sites.
Here they are shred into fragmented furnace feed and transported by road, rail or ship for domestic and international markets. In addition, the process extracts non ferrous metals, either directly or following dense media separation.
The Sims shredder facilities also process hundreds of thousands of depolluted scrap cars from other scrap metal merchant ATFs.
Recycleyourcar offers an innovative abandoned vehicle service across the UK. Its aim is to provide a cost effective vehicle collection and recycling service, but more importantly local schemes to reduce the number of vehicles becoming abandoned in the first place. Recycleyourcar operates as a UK wide cooperative network of Authorised Treatment Facilities and aims to also raise the awareness of the requirements for ensuring cars are recycled at the end of their lives.
For further information on our scrap car and vehicle services email us or call 0800 008 7223.