Annual Report 2025
At the roundabout of
the circular economy
ARN connects parties at the roundabout of the circular economy of car and battery recycling. We outline the developments, performance, and results in 2025.
Car recycling in 2025
Various developments, including legislation, have a significant influence on the car recycling chain. More end-of-life vehicles were registered. High-quality reuse is taking off.
Battery recycling in 2025
Stricter requirements for waste batteries involve many more parties in the recycling chain. ARN makes it possible for all importers and dealers to comply.
Foreword
The car recycling chain plays a key role in the availability of critical raw materials. In a world where geopolitical tensions and material shortages are increasingly felt, recovering raw materials from discarded products and vehicles is becoming more of a necessity…
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ARN in 2025
ARN facilitates approximately 4,000 automotive companies for the tightened Battery Regulation. Confidence in the collective system is high. The transparency provided is greatly appreciated. Involvement in innovative programs contributes to circularity in the chains.
ARN figures
Based on data management, ARN reports on recycling performance in the car and battery recycling chains. Simultaneously, ARN monitors developments in the Dutch vehicle fleet. Via the exit, you will find a comprehensive overview of relevant data.
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10,9 million
Passenger cars and light commercial vehicles
98,8%
Recycling rate
end-of-life vehicles60%
Useful reuse
car batteries
Notable in 2025
Highlights
There is dynamism in both car recycling and car battery recycling, partly as a result of ambitious laws and regulations in 2025.
Great support for extension of cooperation (AVV) in car recycling chain
Accept End-of-Life Vehicles ratified
New registration protocol for 4,000 automotive companies of batteries
Feasibility makes regulation effective
Car recycling since 1993
30 years of recycling pays off
The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) judges that the processing of end-of-life vehicles is well organized and recommends commitment to higher-quality recycling.
Impact of recycling
Of all sectors, the automotive sector requires the most (critical) raw materials. ‘Urban mining’ of cars and batteries makes a big difference.
ARN focuses on circularity
The R-ladder
The R-ladder is a model for ranking circular strategies. The higher up the ladder, the more raw materials we save and the more waste we reduce.
By hovering the mouse over the roundabouts, you can read on which rungs the ARN chain partners contribute more or less to the circular economy.
Recycling
For 30 years, ARN has been committed to recovering high-quality raw materials in the production chain or utilizing them as fuel.
Recovery
For 30 years, ARN has been committed to recovering high-quality raw materials in the production chain, or utilizing them as fuel.
Repurpose
EV batteries can be given a second life once the car is discarded, such as in an energy storage system. ARN is closely involved in building this economy.
Reuse
Professional dismantling companies ensure that used car parts are reused. And increasingly so. ARN encourages this, among other things, with the CO2 calculator
Repair
Professional dismantling companies ensure that used car parts are reused. And increasingly so. ARN encourages this, among other things, with the CO2 calculator.
ARN network develops circular value
At the roundabout of the car and battery recycling chains, many parties work together on the circular economy. As a PRO (Producer Responsibility Organization), ARN has a coordinating role. Evolving and innovating, new, smarter exits are sometimes found, or the flow must be promoted.
ARN's network of relations covers a large number of diverse parties, involving various dependency and cooperation relationships.
Turn off for a comprehensive overviewThe sustainable impact of cooperation in ARN's chains is captured in a single image with the value creation model.
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Battery Regulation affects everyone in the chain
The tightening of legislation is complex. ARN is committed to supporting all importers of new and used batteries in meeting their obligations, and this also applies to parties in the recycling chain, according to Janet Kes.
Janet Kes about the battery regulation
Enthusiastic at the intersection of sustainability and economy
As the lead for the Recovery theme, ARN participates in the Growth Fund program Green Steel. Circularity is central, and according to Pieter Kuiper, green steel offers opportunities for everyone in the chain.
Pieter Kuiper about Green Steel
Chemical industry investigates plastic recovery
Together with dismantling company Klaas Boer, ARN facilitated a consortium of chemical companies looking for opportunities to recover plastics from an end-of-life vehicle at an early stage. Paul Dietz explains the developments occurring in this area.
Paul Dietz about pre-sorting
Annual Report 2025