ARA PROGRAMS/STANDARDS

ARA Car and Gold Seal Certification Programs: Established in 1994, the CAR program was created to produce a set of standards for general business practices as well as environmental and safety issues and to provide guidance for member facilities in adhering to these standards. The ARA Gold Seal program, available only to those ARA members who have completed CAR certification, ensures excellence in customer satisfaction through improved customer service, quality parts with accurate descriptions, reliable on-time deliveries and written product warranties.

ARA Standards and Codes: The ARA has created these standards as an inclusive, cooperative effort between everyone interested in recycled automotive parts, interchange standards, and recycling. The documents are available for download at no charge.

ARA Government Affairs: ARA is dedicated to protecting and promoting the automotive recycling industry on Capitol Hill and in the regulatory agencies. Use this directory to find recent bulletins that ARA has developed regarding issues important to the industry.

Airbag Resources: is a new and exclusive software solution designed to enable members to inspect and track OEM non-deployed airbag modules effectively and efficiently within their operations.

EPA REPORTS/RESOURCES/PROGRAMS

Solid Waste and Emergency Response Discussion Forum - In order to enhance the dialogue between EPA and the public, this online forum provides an opportunity for private citizens, environmental groups, businesses, community groups, and local and tribal governments to discuss topics relating to EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. OSWER will post a new discussion topic monthly.
http://blog.epa.gov/oswerforum/

EPA Publishes Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report

EPA Goes Mobile with the Launch of m.epa.gov

EPA Announces New Stormwater Multi-Sector General Permit

Video Shows Green Practices to Manage Stormwater Runoff

EPA's Environmental Indicators Gateway Provides Best Practices

RELATED PROGRAMS/RESOURCES OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

End of Life Vehicle Solutions (ELVS): ELVS supports the auto industry's belief that the most important step that can be taken to reduce the amount of mercury entering the environment from motor vehicles is to have the mercury switches removed by the recycling/dismantling industry at the vehicle's end-of- life.

General Motors: General Motors offers 2007 Dismantling Manuals. The new manuals provide details about how to dismantle for recycling the 2007 models of the Cadillac Escalade, Cadillac CTS, Cadillac STS, Cadillac XLR, Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Trailblazer, HUMMER H2, HUMMER H3, Opel GT and Saab 9-7x. Other manuals already available online include various 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006 vehicles.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Plastics Division: The ACC works to anticipate environmental concerns related to automobile recycling, and works to help industry develop market-based auto recycling solutions. Go to www.plastics-car.com and learn more about the life cycle of automobiles, and efforts to lessen the environmental impact of automobiles by recycling automobile components.

Rubber Manufacturers Association - RMA assists in promoting scrap tires as a valuable commodity in all ways that are economically and environmentally sound.

Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries - ISRI is the voice of the scrap recycling industry, an association of companies that process, broker, and consume scrap commodities.

Society of Automotive Engineers - SAE shares information and exchanges ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems.

United States Council for Automotive Research LLC - USCAR is an umbrella organization for collaborative research among Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company.

U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium - USABC is an umbrella organization formed to develop electrochemical energy storage technologies which support commercialization of fuel cell, hybrid, and electric vehicles.

Automotive Career Development Center - ACDCis a hybrid-vehicle education center.

Small Business Environmental Homepage - helping small businesses and assistance providers access environmental compliance and sustainable business information.