A fresh start for 'end of life' vehicles

What happens to a car when it reaches the proverbial 'end of the road'?

If you're imagining giant crushers and piles of rusting metal, think again.

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the environment, we now have the facility to take back any Mazda vehicle and dispose of it in an environmentally-responsible manner. Aiming to re-use materials rather than dispose of them, we can currently recycle and recover at least 85% of the car (by weight). We aim to improve this to 95% by 2015.

Mazda have teamed up with a company called "CARTAKEBACK", who provide a network of professionally operated Authorised Treatment Facilities, (ATF's). Each of these facilities is equipped to manage the complete process of taking back your 'end of life' vehicle.

The 'take back' facility is completely free of charge to the last registered holder or keeper, providing that:

• The vehicle is complete and contains the essential components including engine, transmission, coachwork, wheels and catalyst (where fitted).
• The vehicle is free from additional waste (such as garden/household waste, additional tyres etc).

Once the 'take back' process has been carried out, Cartakeback will issue you with an official Certificate of Destruction (CoD).

To take advantage of the free takeback scheme simply visit www.cartakeback.com or telephone them on 0845 257 32 33.

Alternatively, please call us on 0845 601 3147 for further information.

What exactly do we do?

First of all, we professionally de-pollute the car. This involves:

• draining all fluids
• removing the battery and tyres
• neutralising airbag systems

Any saleable parts are removed and sold. At a shredding facility the vehicle is then crushed, and separation techniques used to recover metallics for recycling into new ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

The remaining material, known as shredder residue, can be treated at Heavy Media Plants to retrieve any lost metallics and non-metallics. The remaining residue is further sorted and used in a number of applications. For example recovered glass can be used with stone as an aggregate for road building and road surfaces.

Once these processes have been completed only then will the remaining residue be sent to landfill (typically less than 20% of the original weight of the vehicle).