Our Environment

Durham Auto Spares cares for the environment and actively encourages safe and effective removal and disposal of all contaminants from vehicles and is an Authorised Treatment Facility capible of handling all aspects of vehicle recycling.

 

End of Life Vehicles

The End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive (2000/53/EC) aims to reduce the amount of waste from ELVs. In particular it:

1. restricts the use of certain heavy metals in new vehicles from 1 July 2003;

2. introduces a “certificate of destruction” for scrapped vehicles;

3. requires producers to mark certain vehicle components to aid recycling;

4. requires producers to make available dismantling information in respect of new vehicles;

5. states that producers must provide free take back for vehicles put on the market from 1 July 2002, if such vehicles have a negative value when scrapped;

6. requires that ELVs can only be scrapped (‘treated’) by authorised treatment facilities, which must meet tightened environmental standards.