Scrap Car Recycling Services

All vehicles, including family cars, commercial vans, and trucks, inevitably reach the end of their service life, requiring eco-friendly recycling. Choose Motorwise for safe and environmentally compliant recycling of your scrap car, ensuring sustainability. We will offer a competitive price for your scrap car, alongside free nationwide collection and prompt payment.

Request an instant quote today by filling out the form above to start the scrap car recycling process!

How do I recycle my car?

Environmental regulations aim to reduce the environmental impact of recycling scrap cars, promoting sustainability. Only Authorised Treatment Facilities (ATFs) have legal approval to manage the scrapping and recycling of vehicles. When processing vehicle scrappage, ATFs must adhere to the End-of-Life Vehicles Regulations 2003.

Motorwise is an Environment Agency certified Waste Broker, ensuring compliance and safety in car recycling. Click here to view our licence. Motorwise only works with licenced and trusted ATFs to scrap cars.

The Car Recycling Process

Every scrap car is de-polluted to safely remove hazardous materials prior to recycling, adhering to environmental standards. As much of the scrap car needs to be recycled in order to hit the recycling target.

The recycling target was initially set by the EU back in 2005 at 85% - a significant 10% increase on what was being recycled at that time. This was later boosted to 95%.

This includes draining petrol, oil, anti-freeze, brake and transmission fluids, and various lubricants from the scrap car. This includes petrol, oil, anti-freeze and both brake and transmission fluids, not to mention the different lubricants. All of the liquids are safely stored, before being shipped to processing plants.

Reusable parts are carefully removed from scrap cars to be recycled or reused, reducing waste.

The amount of reusable parts in your scrap car will vary according to the age and condition of the scrap car. Any parts of the scrap car that can't be re-sold are removed from the scrap car and safely stored before disposal.

The chassis and any remaining parts of the scrap car are fed into the crusher in order to compact the scrap metal, which is then put into a shredder.

Once shredded, the car scrap metal is separated into ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and any remaining residue (glass, foam and plastic) from the scrap car is safely disposed of.

Finally, the scrap metal is melted down ready for recycled use.

Once the processing of the scrap car is completed, the ATF will produce a Certificate of Destruction (CoD) to notify DVLA of the destruction of the vehicle.

What cars do Motorwise accept to be recycled?

Here at Motorwise, we can provide instant online quotes or the following:

• Scrap cars and vans
• Damaged cars
• MOT failures
• Non-runners
• Pre-loved and unwanted
• ELV (End-of-Life Vehicles)
• Mechanically faulty cars
• Accident damaged cars
• Salvage cars

Can Motorwise collect my scrap car?

No problem, our scrap car collection service is free of charge. Our appointed recycling centres collect tens of thousands of scrap vehicles from across the whole of the U.K., meaning that even if you can't bring your scrap car to the licensed processing site, we can arrange for your scrap car to be safely collected at your convenience.