You will find the names and locations of members of ARN’s network where you can hand in your old car on the interactive map (Flash is required).

Used spareparts can be bought at car dissmateling companies. Check the map for an overview.

The disposal fee is charged when a vehicle is registered, regardless of what happens to the car after its registration. The disposal fee is used to allow all the vehicles that are brought to the ARN car dismantling companies to be dismantled.
Since the car has been registered, we cannot refund the disposal fee.

Parts 1 and 2 of the car’s registration papers and a copy of part 3.

ARN uses the disposal fee it receives for the processing of end-of-life cars and not for caravans, mopeds/scooters or any other vehicles. If you want to surrender a caravan or motorcycle, you should contact the importer or producer of the vehicle or other article.

The ARN system served as a model for the EU Directive, so ARN can implement the measures in the directive fairly easily. The major consequence of the directive is that by 2015 at least 95% of an end-of-life car must be recycled. ARN expects to meet this target well before 2015.

The EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (2000/53/EC) has been implemented in the Netherlands in the Management of End-of-Life Vehicles Decree. The Netherlands has already accomplished a lot thanks to the efforts of ARN and the car dismantling companies. The most recent changes to the decree took effect on 1 July 2009 and you can download the latest version elsewhere on this site. The recycling percentage in the Netherlands will rise in the coming years with the introduction of post-shredder technology (PST).

ARN has chosen to increase the recycling percentage for old cars in an environmentally sound and efficient manner by using post-shredder technology. The PST plant will go into operation in 2010. In this plant shredder waste can be processed into useful new materials using mechanical separation techniques. The plant will be operated by ARN Recycling, a subsidiary of ARN.

The car dismantling company removes the parts that can still be used for sale as spare parts. From what remains of the car wreck, the companies currently remove 19 materials, for which they receive a premium. These materials are collected and processed. In this way, more than 85% of the weight of a car is recycled.

A wide variety of materials is produced, which can be used as raw materials by a range of industries to manufacture new products or to recover energy.
A few examples include:

• A part of tyres is turned into granulate, which is used as a raw material for the production of sports fields, roofing materials and paving for playgrounds.
• Most of the glass is processed into bottles and fibre-reinforced plastics.
• A lot of safety belts are used as fibres in insulating material, carpet underlay and geotextiles. A small amount is used as tree ties.
• Used braking fluid is chemically processed into new braking fluid.
• PUR foam is transformed into products such as rebounded foam, which is used in mattresses, sports mats and furniture. Some PUR foam is mixed with textile fibres and returns to cars as an insulating material.
• Windscreen spray liquid is made up of water, methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol and glycol. The alcohols are easy to distill. Alcohols can be reused for many purposes in industry, for example in new windscreen spray liquid.

The removal of ARN materials from cars does not depend on the make of car but on the type of material. For a car dismantling company, it generally makes no difference whether it has to remove a battery from a large car or a small one. But the weight does differ according to the make of car, so ARN employs standard volumes. These are the average number of kilograms, litres or units of material that a car dismantling company can supply for each end-of-life car.

At the moment, we recycle 85% of the car, mainly by recycling metal (75%) and removing 19 materials (10%). We expect to increase that figure by 10% mainly by using post-shredder technology, since the use of this technology will eliminate the need to remove materials from cars manually.

The material that is left over after the shredding phase is deposited in landfill sites.

Only the materials which can be processed into high-quality products and for which there is a large enough market are removed from end-of-life cars for recycling. Another requirement is that there is a suitable recycling method, or the prospect of one, for the materials.

The dismantling must be safe, efficient and as inexpensive as possible, it must not lead to distortion of the market and it must provide guarantees that the materials will be used properly.

You can fill in the reimbursement form and send it to the address at the bottom of the form.