What we offer

Sustainable solutions for vehicle recycling and the automotive industry

Solutions that enable the automotive industry to recover materials, reduce waste, and achieve circularity efficiently.

Complete ELV recycling solutions
High recovery rates for metals and plastics
Compliance with automotive recycling standards
Tailored strategies for OEMs and suppliers

Need help with ELV, battery, and automotive waste recycling?

The automotive industry faces growing pressure to become more sustainable, driven by stricter environmental legislation and increasing consumer demand for greener vehicles. Meeting these challenges requires rethinking processes, products, and supply chains.

What’s included?

Stena Recycling offers ELV, battery, and production waste recycling. Covering safe collection, sorting, and advanced recovery of metals, plastics, electronics, and batteries to create high-quality raw materials for new manufacturing. We also provide circular design and waste optimization consulting to cut costs, lower emissions, and ensure compliance.

Recycle ELVs and batteries
Recover metals, plastics, and electronics
Secure recycled materials for production
Optimize waste collection and traceability
Design vehicles for recyclability
Set sustainability goals and KPIs
Responsibly source materials

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Why choose Stena Recycling to take care of automotive industry waste?

With decades of experience in automotive sustainability, Stena Recycling combines expertise with industrial-scale solutions. We handle complex material streams, from ferrous and non-ferrous metals to plastics, electronics, and lithium-ion batteries. Ensuring safe collection, sorting, and transportation.

Our advanced recycling processes turn these materials into high-quality raw materials for new manufacturing, reducing dependency on virgin resources. Beyond recycling, we provide circular consulting for process and product design, plus optimization of waste management. Giving your business everything it needs to move toward full circularity.

Stena Recycling and Volvo Cars – creating 100% recyclable cars

A resource-efficient automotive industry requires advanced material recycling on an industrial level and no landfill waste. Today, in collaboration with Volvo Cars, we can recycle 95% of a Volvo car. But that is no longer enough. We now want to reach 100% recyclability and set a course for a future with zero waste. But how will we get there? By working together with trusted customers and partners like Volvo Cars.

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Kristofer Sundsgård, CEO of Stena Recycling Group

“95% recyclability isn’t enough. We have to reach 100%. By working closely together with our partners – developing new technology, collaborating around design for recycling, and making cars easier to recycle – we can reach even higher recycling rates, saving resources and energy, and thereby a large amount of carbon dioxide.”

Kristofer Sundsgård, CEO Stena Recycling Group

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Need help with vehicle recycling and automotive waste?

Turn end-of-life vehicles and production waste into value. Our experts make collection, dismantling, and recycling simple and efficient. So you can focus on what matters.

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Solutions for vehicle recycling and automotive waste

Stena Recycling offers a complete range of market-leading services, advanced recycling processes, and expertise to help you increase recovery and reuse of materials from end-of-life vehicles and automotive production waste.

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Waste collection and Recycling

Whatever the materials, whatever the quantity, we have the processes in place to deliver advanced and efficient recycling on an industrial level. We also offer flexible, reliable and cost-effective waste collection and sustainable transport solutions.

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Total waste management

At Stena Recycling, we can take care of your waste – no matter how great the volume or complex the material. Our total waste management offer is tailored to your needs and includes waste collection, sorting and recycling as well as training, labeling and reporting.

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Lithium-ion Battery Recycling

We sort and collect used lithium-ion batteries and battery production waste and safely transport it to our certified recycling facilities. Batteries that can’t be reused and any production waste are recycled into new high-quality raw materials.

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About Stena Circular Consulting

Our experts can help implement sustainable solutions that deliver the greatest economic and environmental value for your business. Together, we can design and develop products, process flows and business models to reduce your climate impact and help you on the way to full circularity.

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We collect and recycle end-of-life vehicles

Every year, millions of vehicles in Europe reach the end of their life cycle. Managing these vehicles responsibly is essential for sustainability and compliance with environmental standards.

As the leading Scandinavian recycler of end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), we have developed circular solutions that improve knowledge and methods for handling all components, materials, and hazardous waste found in today’s - and tomorrow’s - vehicles. Our work focuses especially on the safe and sustainable collection, reuse, and recycling of high-voltage lithium-ion batteries.

ELV solutions

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Stena Metal International together with Stena Recycling’s markets across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Poland, materials are processed, inspected, and customized for top quality. Many metals come from Stena Recycling’s shredding and granulation facilities, where recycled metal quality is continuously assured.

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Want to make your business more circular?

Stena Circular Consulting’s services cover key aspects of the circular economy, specializing in circular product design, zero waste initiatives, circular system design, and integrating circularity into clients’ strategies while ensuring regulatory compliance.

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Stena Recycling’s industry solutions

At Stena Recycling, we provide sustainable solutions for tens of thousands of customers across a wide range of industries – from retail, manufacturing and public sector to processing, infrastructure, automotive and end-of-life vehicles.

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