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.

Check out the What's New page to read about what automotive recyclers are doing around the nation ...

• U.S. EPA Praises Efforts
  of the Automotive Recyclers Association and Recognizes the Usefulness of the Environmental Compliance for Automotive Recyclers Center

• Ask ECAR Question & Answer Archives

• New Brunswick program recycles province's old automobile tires
  Tuesday, May 06, 2008-- Diverting those old tires from the waste stream, and ensuring productive recycling, is the essence of the New Brunswick's Tire Stewardship Program (TSP). More than 10 million scrap tires have been successfully recovered and recycled in N.B. since the TSP began in October, 1996....[<|>More]
  [The Daily Gleaner, Canada]
• Salvage yard owner sues city
  Tuesday, May 06, 2008-- The owner of a salvage yard across the street from Madison High School is suing Milwaukee's Board of Zoning Appeals over an action that essentially shuts the business down. DO/RE Inc., a corporation that operates Aztak Metal Processing, says in the lawsuit that the board's refusal to renew a variance was arbitrary, not based on the evidence and contrary to the law....[<|>More]
  [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• Vesco Oil wins award for oil filter recycling process
  Friday, May 02, 2008-- Vesco Oil Corporation, a Southfield, Michigan-based distributor and supplier, received the Environmental Achievement Award for its used oil filter management program from the Environmental Management Association (EMA)....[<|>More]
  [American Recycler, OH]
• New training programs are available for auto recyclers
  Friday, May 02, 2008-- The Automotive Recyclers Associations Educational Foundation (ARAEF) has added two new training programs to its online university. The ARA University (ARAU) will now give the auto recycler the ability to plug in to e-training offered by the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair (CCAR) and ARA Product Services, LLC. These new additions to the ARAU curriculum will provide the recycler with direct access to industry-recognized hazmat and airbag training. Both programs are designed to help the auto recycler stay in compliance with federal regulations. ARAU has partnered with CCAR to bring the auto recycler two specialized training courses, S/P2 and HazmatU, that are focused on safety and pollution prevention and hazmat materials....[<|>More]
  [American Recycler, OH]