The ECAR Center is a "one-stop shop" for all automotive dismantling and recycling operations and provides comprehensive and up-to-date environmental compliance assistance.

Its mission is to help reduce potential impacts on the environment from the automotive recycling sector through better availability of information regarding various forms of best management practices, pollution control and prevention and compliance with environmental regulations.

The Center's hallmark is its state-by-state fact sheet tour on 25 topics important to automotive recyclers. See ECAR Center State Fact Sheet Tour.

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Pollution Prevention Resources for Automotive Recyclers ...

• What's New at EPA
  • Solvent Contaminated Wipes Rule NODA Comment Period Extension
  • EPA to Hold Public Listening Sessions on Potential Stormwater Rule
  • Record Annual Enforcement Results Achieved in the Southeast; New Mapping Tool Released
• What's New for National Programs
• What's New for State Programs
• Awards / Grants

• ISRI Sets Up Police, Scrap Industry Cooperation
  Thursday, January 21, 2010-- The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), Washington, D.C., has been taking measures to convince law enforcement agencies that it takes the problem of metals theft seriously....[<|>More]
  [Recycling Today]
• Global Resource Signs Joint Venture with Phoenix Renewable Energy
  Wednesday, January 20, 2010-- Global Resource Corp. (GRBC), Mount Laurel, N.J., has signed a joint venture to develop, build, own and operate several facilities with Phoenix Renewable Energy, Hot Springs, Ark., for the processing of scrap tires....[<|>More]
  [Recycling Today]
• Azcons Alton Shredder Open for Business
  Tuesday, January 19, 2010-- Chicago-based Azcon Corp., a large regional ferrous scrap processor and trader, has announced the commissioning of a new auto shredding plant at its Alton, Ill., location. The shredder is located near Azcons Alton dock on the Mississippi River....[<|>More]
  [Recycling Today]