ARN for motorists

You can quickly and easily drop off an end-of-life vehicle at an ARN dismantling company near you. The relevant company will take care of the formalities and set in motion the safe and responsible processing of your end-of-life vehicle. Read more about the services we offer motorists.

Video car recycling

Hand in your car to a car dismantling company; how does that work? Watch the video.

Drop off your car

Drop off your end-of-life vehicle free-of-charge to a car-dismantling company near you.

Video battery collection

What happens to the car battery when an electric car is scrapped? Watch the video.

Starter-battery collection

Find the starter-battery collection point nearest to you.

Recycling fee for cars

The recycling fee is payable on all cars that are registered in the Netherlands. In addition to new cars, this now includes all imported cars that are registered in the Netherlands for the first time.

Car-recycling results

When an end-of-life vehicle is taken to a car-dismantling company, no less than 98.7 per cent, by weight, will be reused, recycled or channelled to another useful application.

Battery-recycling results

In 2021, over 80 importers participated in the collection and recycling scheme of the ARN Management Plan.

What happens to an end-of-life vehicle?

An end-of-life vehicle goes through quite a process: being dropped off, dismantled, shredded and the materials are then separated into potential new usage streams

What happens to the batteries?

The increasing number of electric cars on our roads translates to more and more of their batteries being disposed of. ARN collects both lithium-ion starter batteries and drive batteries.

The role of ARN

Together with the affiliated companies in the recycling chain, ARN ensures that at least 95 per cent of an end-of-life vehicle, by weight, is gainfully reused. We help importers by assuming their producer responsibilities.

Sustainability Report

In 2021, together with our partners, ARN managed to gainfully reuse 98.7 per cent of end-of-life vehicles, by weight. For batteries too, the attained recycling level of over 70 per cent was comfortably above the legal norm.