Remove My Car arranges free collection of end-of-life vehicles across the UK through hundreds of licensed Authorised Treatment Facilities. Since our records began in 2014 the network has handled almost one million vehicles — more than 40,000 of them in the last year — with every car recycled at a licensed facility and every customer holding the paperwork to prove it.
Almost 1 millionvehicles since 2014
40,000+collected last year
17,000+verified reviews
The founder
Steve Queen founded Remove My Car after years around the motor trade, where he saw the scrap end of the industry up close — the doorstep haggling, the vanishing paperwork, the prices that changed when the truck arrived. He started the network to prove none of that was the cost of scrapping a car: build the version that does everything by the book, and drivers would notice.
Sixteen years on, he still runs the network — and he is its named voice: the data studies published under the Remove My Car name, the industry comment in the press, and the evidence submitted to government consultations all carry his name, because a network asking for your car should be run by someone willing to put theirs on it.
This industry earned its old reputation, and the way to change that was never words — it was paperwork, licensed facilities and prices that don't move on the doorstep. Almost a million cars later, that is still the whole strategy.
Steve Queen, Founder, Remove My Car
How the network works
It took years to assemble what we believe are the most competitive and reliable treatment facilities in the UK, and the model is deliberately simple: we send our partner facilities a steady stream of customers; in return they offer stronger prices, take cars they wouldn't usually take, and meet the service standard we hold them to. Better prices bring more customers, more customers earn better prices — the cycle is the business.
Every facility in the network is a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility — here is how to check any scrap yard's licence, ours included — and every scrapped car ends with a Certificate of Destruction that closes your responsibility for it.
Why the data matters
Handling this many vehicles produces something rarer than scale: a record. Twelve years of collection data — what Britain scraps, at what age, and how that is changing — now informs our published research, our press commentary and our submissions to government. When we say the average car reaches the end of the road at 18 years old, that is not an estimate. It is our own books. The full record — all 962,630 vehicles and what they reveal about how Britain scraps — is published as the One Million Cars study.
Journalists: Steve Queen is available for comment on vehicle recycling, values and end-of-life trends — the media page has data, imagery and contacts, or reach the press office at [email protected] · 0330 159 1588. We aim to turn media requests around within two hours.
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