Environmental Data Centre on Waste

Re-use and Recovery Rate

 

The recycling and recovery rate of End-of-Life Vehicles is the most relevant data because of the reporting requirements and targets set out in the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive

 

   Eurobase: complete data on End-of-Life vehicles

   Eurobase: Re-use and Recovery Rates for End-of-Life vehicles

 

 

For your convenience the tables  according to  Commission Decison 2005/293/EC on ELV's  are re-produced  (please click on the links below)

 

Table 1:

 

    Materials from de-pollution and dismantling (in tonnes per year) of end-of-life vehicles arising in the Member State and treated within the Member State

 

Table 2:

 

   Materials from shredding (in tonnes per year) of end-of-life vehicles arising in the Member State and  treated within the Member State
 

Table 3:

 

   Monitoring of (parts of) end-of-life vehicles arising in the Member State and exported for further treatment (in tonnes per year)

 

 

The map shows the ELV reuse and recovery rate for 2008.

Directive 2000/53/EC lays down specific requirements for the management of end-of-life vehicles. The Directive's main objective is the prevention of waste from vehicles and, in addition to this, the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of end-of-life vehicles and their components so as to reduce the disposal of waste. The Directive also aims to improve the environmental performance of all economic operators involved in the life-cycle of vehicles and especially the operators directly involved in the treatment of end-of-life vehicles.

 

ELV Waste Estimates

 

Every year, end-of-life vehicles account for between 8 and 9 million tonnes of waste in the Community which should be managed correctly.  In 1997, the European Commission adopted a Proposal for a Directive which aims at making vehicle dismantling and recycling more environmentally friendly, sets clear quantified targets for reuse, recycling and recovery of vehicles and their components and pushes producers to manufacture new vehicles also with a view to their recyclability.

 

Numbers and Location of ELVs

• Volume of ELVs arising each year is increasing (increase in arisings requiring treatment by 2015 from approximately 10 million tonnes to 14 million tonnes).
• Five Member States (Germany, UK, France, Spain and Italy) are responsible for approximately 75% of EU 25 vehicle deregistrations.

 

• Ensure that a minimum of 85% of vehicles are reused or recovered (including energy recovery) and at least 80% must be reused or recycled from 2006.
• Increasing to 95% reused or recovered (including energy recovery) and 85% reused or recycled by 2015.

 Projection of End-of-Life Vehicles, Development of a Projection Model and Estimates of ELVs for 2005-2030 (ETC/RWM working paper, February 2008)

 A Study to Examine the Benefits of the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive and the Costs and Benefits of a Revision of the 2015 Targets for Recycling, Re-use and Recovery Under the ELV Directive (May 2006)

 End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive: An Assessment of the Current State of Implementation by Member States (March 2007)

 

• European Commission - DG Environment on ELVs
• European Environment Agency - EIONET on ELVs