Manage the end of life of your Brand vehicle

There is no federal law governing End-of-Life Vehicle and Producer Responsibility (ERP) in the United States. The often-preferred term used in the U.S. for practices related to EPR is "product stewardship" – which calls upon all parties involved a product’s life cycle (i.e., producers, manufacturers, retailers, users, and disposers) to share responsibility for reducing the product’s impacts on the environment. The focus of most product stewardship programs related to vehicles at the national level in the US has been on voluntary measures to address contaminants of particular concern or to further specific recycling goals.

- Mercury switches.
In 2006 a coalition of federal, State, industry, and environmental nonprofit partners created the [National Vehicle Mercury Switch Recovery Program (NVMSRP)] (https://www.epa.gov/mercury/switch.htm), a voluntary effort to promote safe removal of mercury switches from ELVs before they are shredded for recycling. Steel and the auto manufacturers have established a voluntary $4-million fund to provide incentives for switches returned through the NVMSRP. [End of Life Vehicle Solutions (ELVS)] (http://elvsolutions.org/), a national not-for-profit corporation formed by automobile manufacturers, provides educational materials and collects and recycles automotive switches at no cost to dismantlers and recyclers.

- Vehicle tires.
Policy makers at all levels of government have paid particular attention to issues associated with vehicle tires and have taken actions to support [tire recycling and reuse] (https://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/tires). At a national level, these programs include the application of both [comprehensive procurement guidelines] (https://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/cpg/index.htm) for recycled content products (e.g., [retread tires] (https://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/tools/cpg/products/retread.htm)) and [environmentally--preferable purchasing practices] (https://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp).