Strengthened and more efficient ELV network: Renault Group expands its individual system with Derichebourg

• Renault Group chooses Derichebourg Environnement to join its Individual End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Individual System, aimed at meeting its Extended Producer Responsibility obligations under the French AGEC law [1].
• Thanks to this partnership, Renault Group is expanding its network from 440 to 480 ELV Centres and to 20 recycling facilities in France.
• Renault Group collects, treats and recycles all ELVs of its brands, via INDRA Automobile Recycling, a subsidiary of The Future Is NEUTRAL [2], leader in ELV treatment in France and a long-standing partner.

As part of the deployment of its Individual System (IS) dedicated to the treatment of End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs), Renault Group announces the signing of a partnership with Derichebourg Environnement, a French player recognized in the ELV sector among the most efficient in the recycling market. The signing of the partnership took place in the presence of Fabien Payzan, Director of Network Strategy at Renault France, Claire Cazalis, Director of Extended Producer Responsibility at Renault Group, Thomas Derichebourg, Managing Director of Derichebourg Environnement, Sébastien Paul, CSR Manager at Derichebourg Environnement and Christine Ribeiro, Head of EPR ^[3]at Derichebourg Environnement.

Renault Group’s Individual System is based on a simple principle: to combine two high-performance players, the ELV centre (CVHU) which collects and depollutes end-of-life vehicles and produces reusable parts, and the recycling facility which guarantees the production of recycled materials thanks to high-level separation technologies. The association of these two actors makes it possible to maximise recycling and recovery rates, guarantee better traceability of flows, optimise the dismantling and recovery of parts and materials.

To guarantee compliant, homogeneous and efficient care of ELVs from brands managed under the IS, Renault Group has joined forces with Derichebourg to expand the network partner recycling facilities. Thanks to this agreement, 40 CVHUs in the Derichebourg network have signed Renault Group’s ELV IS contract, significantly strengthening the capacity to collect, decontaminate and dismantle end-of-life vehicles in compliance with regulatory requirements.

In addition to collection and decontamination, achieving the recycling and recovery rates required by regulations is based on the quality of the entire chain, including industrial recycling operations. In this context, 17 facilities from the Derichebourg group have signed the Renault Group’s IS shredder contract. Their performance in terms of sorting and recycling materials will make it possible to achieve, or even exceed, the objectives set by the public authorities^[4].

In total, Renault Group’s Individual System will now be able to rely on the expertise of 454 recycling facilities in France (including 435 ELV centers and 19 shredding facilities), in addition to the existing network of partners which relies on INDRA Automobile Recycling, the leading network in France for ELV management.

The system remains simple and free of charge for individuals, within the framework provided for by law. Individuals can:

• Either drop off their ELV in the network of approved partner centres,
• Or make a request for collection via the goodbye-car.com website.
  
  
• Or go through the “one-stop shop” on the jerecyclemonvehicule.fr website, a single-access portal that brings together all the individual systems of manufacturers and eco-organisations.
  
  

The partner ELV centres manage the decontamination, dismantling and sorting with a view to reusing parts or recycling by qualified players who comply with the regulations in force. In addition, they trace all the vehicles they receive, ensure the marking of parts from the dismantling operations and the traceability of the carcasses to a recycling site, which is also efficient. It is the complementarity of the performance of these two players, ELV centres and recycling site, that guarantees the achievement of the European reuse and recovery objectives. This scheme makes it possible to make a significant and sustainable contribution to environmental issues in France.

AGEC Law

The AGEC law of 10 February 2020 reinforces the extended responsibility of car manufacturers for the management of their end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) in order to ensure that they can be taken back free of charge throughout the national territory. Manufacturers can contact eco-organisations or apply for approval as an Individual System and manage the treatment of these ELVs themselves. The ambition of this measure is to fight against the illegal ELV sector and to optimise the treatment of ELVs both in terms of decontamination and recycling of materials and reuse of the parts extracted from them. The main objectives set by the regulations are: to achieve 85% of the reuse and recycling rate and 95% of the recovery rate.

Around 1.4 million end-of-life vehicles, with an average age of 19 years, are treated each year in France.

[1] AGEC Law: Anti-Waste Law for a Circular Economy (France)
[2] The Future Is NEUTRAL, is the only automotive circular economy player serving the entire automotive industry in Europe. More information: https://www.thefutureisneutral.com
[3] EPR: Extended Producer Responsibility
[4] See box on the AGEC Law at the end of this press release.
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