E W Motor Services is now able to provide an end of life service to remove and safely recycle your old car, as per the environment agency directive.
What are the aims of the ELV Directive?
The main objectives of the Directive are to try and minimise the amount of waste generated from the ELV disposal process, whilst also reducing any adverse environmental impacts caused through current dismantling practices.
At present, approximately 75% of an end-of-life vehicle is recovered (by weight) via the conventional scrap metal recycling process. However, the recycling and recovery targets set by the ELV Directive are far more stringent, aiming for 85% by January 2006 and 95% by January 2015 - and these targets will only be achieved through the increased recycling, recovery and re-use of a vehicle's components (in other words, by fully de-polluting each vehicle before scrapping it).
What is vehicle de-pollution?
Vehicle de-pollution is the newly developed treatment process that all end-of-life vehicles must undertake if they are to achieve the required levels of materials recycling and recovery stipulated by the ELV Directive.
The process basically involves two main functions:
The recovery of all positive components and fluids that may be recycled and re-used (e.g. fuels, oils, coolants, ferrous and non-ferrous metal components, etc.), and also
The removal of all those negative elements of a vehicle that are potentially harmful to the environment (e.g. tyres, mercury switches, airbags, etc).
Covering the North East, Including; Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, North to the Scottish Borders, South as far as North Yorkshire Borders, and West into the pennines..