The End of Life Vehicle Regulations require that all car manufacturers and importers of new cars in the United Kingdom meet recycling and recovery targets of 85% by weight in 2006 and 95% by weight in 2015.

Environmental responsibility is a major part of the business philosophy of Land Rover, as it is one of our core brand values. The end of the life of the car is also considered; the treatment of old vehicles and the recycling of the materials from them. Re-use and re-utilisation of materials have priority before disposal and, where economically possible re-integrated into the product. Every Land Rover is designed to be at least 85% recyclable.

In current Land Rover models, 63 different parts are made from recycled plastic with a total weight of 27 kilograms - in 2004 this resulted in 660 tonnes of waste being diverted from landfill. More importantly, the material used in Land Rover vehicles can be fed back into the material cycle again and be re-used for further manufacture of new automotive components or for non-automotive purposes.

Any saleable parts will be removed and sold. Further treatment of the vehicle will take place at a shredding facility where the vehicle is 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 further treated to retrieve any lost metallic and non-metallic material. The remaining residue can be further sorted and used in a number of applications. For example, glass that is recovered can be used 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.

The information from these disassembly studies of current and older Land Rover models is input into the International Disassembly Information System (IDIS), which vehicle manufacturers have developed together as the source of information to enable efficient disassembly. IDIS now contains disassembly information on over 300 vehicle models from 24 manufacturers.