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Producer responsibility regulations
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According to the Scottish Environment Agency: The number of vehicles in use in the UK has risen steadily over recent decades up to an estimated 32 million in 2003/2004.
Just over two million vehicles are discarded annually which, at an average weight of one tonne each, results in two million tonnes of waste. End-of-life vehicles have the potential to release hazardous substances into the environment if they are not treated, recycled or disposed of properly.
As a result of concerns about the environmental and economic impacts of waste vehicles, the European Union adopted the End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive (2000/53/EC), which came into force in 2000".
The requirements are: • Economic operators including producers, dismantlers and shredders must establish adequate systems for the collection of ELVs • Since January 2007 vehicle owners must be able to hand them over to collection systems free of charge • Since January 2007 vehicle manufacturers or importers must pay "all or a significant part of the costs of take-back and treatment" • Reuse, recycling and recovery targets have had to be met by economic operators since January 2006(85% recovery with minimum 80% recycled). In 2015 this rises to 95/85% It is estimated that some 75% (mainly metallic) content of vehicles is currently recycled in the UK.
The remaining 25% (mostly plastic, glass, rubber, foam and contaminants) is currently considered to be unsuitable or uneconomic for recycling.
A copy of the regulations can be downloaded from the HMSO website: www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2005/20050263.htm Treatment is governed via the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003, which include sections on design and information requirements, certificates of destruction, collection and delivery as well as the keeping and treatment of ELVs.
There are separate Scottish regulations on authorising the keeping and treatment of waste motor vehicles called the End-ofLife Vehicles (Storage and Treatment) (Scotland) Regulations 2003: these came into force on 7 January 2007.