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UK edges closer towards ELV recovery target
Friday, 14 January 2011
The recycling and recovery rate of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) was boosted by car salvage dealers across the UK; however the nation is still off the Europe-wide target of 85 per cent.
Six member states of the EU have already surpassed the ELV recovery rate of 90 per cent in 2008 and are now aiming towards the 95 per cent target set for 2015. Indeed Liechtenstein and Austria have already surpassed the 95 per cent reuse and recovery target, highlighting the work Britain still has to do to meet these high standards.
The latest report published by the European Commission states that in 2008 the UK moved closer to their 2006 target, which required 85 per cent of all ELVs to be recovered or reused. Nevertheless, Britain has not yet managed to reach their milestone, while neighbouring countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden are well on their way.
In 2008 a total of 49,485 tonnes of material retrievable by car salvage companies was recovered for reuse, recycling and energy recovery in the UK.
Did you know that just one litre of waste oil is sufficient to contaminate one million litres of water? Over 13,000 tonnes of liquid, excluding fuel, and just less than 5,000 tonnes of batteries were also recovered.
Car dismantlers ASM Auto Recycling provide an efficient vehicle dismantling service for the safe, environmentally-friendly dismantling, cleaning and testing of all recycled parts of a vehicle. ASM has installed state-of-the-art de-pollution rigs to enable the processing of abandoned and end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in accordance with the European ELV Directive for its car scrappage scheme.
ASM process over 15,000 vehicles for professional vehicle salvage every year, with a further 2,000 vehicles for parts dismantling.
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