As more communities seek real solutions to environmental challenges, a growing focus has turned to one of our most ubiquitous consumer products — the automobile. A recent Ledger-Enquirer feature highlights a promising new initiative in Georgia that’s changing how end-of-life vehicles are handled by prioritizing full recycling and environmental accountability.

SHiFT® was recently featured in The Colorado Sun for helping get old, high-polluting vehicles off the road and advancing sustainable auto recycling. The article spotlights SHiFT’s guaranteed vehicle retirement process and highlights certified partner Stadium Auto Parts, an 80-year leader in responsible recycling. Together, SHiFT and Stadium ensure every vehicle is processed to completion—engines decommissioned, materials reclaimed, and pollutants kept out of the environment. Read more about how SHiFT and our partners are creating a cleaner, more circular future for automotive recycling.

SHiFT is featured in Fleet Management Weekly for our innovative approach to responsibly retiring fleet vehicles. Learn how we’re helping fleets reduce waste, recover materials, and support a greener transportation future.

SHiFT and our partner M&M Auto Parts are in the national spotlight! NPR and All Things Considered featured our work in eco-friendly auto recycling.

Westover’s recent adoption of the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative, a global enterprise that helping consumers and companies recycle end-of-life vehicles with environmentally responsible protocols.

In this Federal News Network feature, SHiFT® Director Chapin Griffith explores how vehicle recycling offers government fleet managers a more efficient, sustainable alternative to auction-based disposal. While traditional resale often results in minimal returns and potential environmental risks, certified recycling programs like SHiFT® ensure end-of-life vehicles are dismantled, refined, and reused responsibly — keeping hazardous materials out of landfills and supporting the circular economy. By working with licensed domestic recyclers, agencies can reduce overhead, improve sustainability performance, and contribute to a stronger U.S. supply of affordable, high-quality recycled parts.

As America navigates yet another political pivot, the conversation around environmental responsibility and consumer choice in the automotive industry continues to evolve. Chapin Griffith, Director of SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative, highlights how responsible end-of-life vehicle retirement can significantly reduce environmental impact. Amid shifting federal policies and reduced EV incentives, programs like SHiFT empower consumers to make greener choices, proving sustainability doesn’t always require buying new, just retiring old the right way.

In Western Mass News, Westover Auto Salvage in Belchertown is recognized as the first western Massachusetts recycler to join the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative® — a national program dedicated to reducing emissions from end-of-life vehicles. The story highlights how SHiFT® and Westover collaborate to responsibly decommission unsafe, high-polluting cars through a meticulous depollution process that recovers parts, fuel, and energy. By recycling oil to heat their facilities and retiring older vehicles from the road, Westover is proving that environmental responsibility and local business success can go hand-in-hand — saving up to 10 tons of carbon per car each year.

The Belchertown-based company announced the milestone this week, marking a significant step forward in efforts to reduce automotive-related emissions and promote a circular economy in the region. The partnership requires participating recyclers to commit to fully retiring a vehicle’s engine once it enters the SHiFT program, ensuring that high-emission, low-efficiency vehicles are permanently removed from circulation.

The SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative offers auto recyclers an alternative to auction sites while helping consumers and companies recycle vehicles responsibly.

Chapin Griffith discusses the role of automotive recycling in reducing carbon emissions. With extensive experience in fleet retirement strategies, he highlights SHiFT’s mission to streamline ELV processing, support recyclers, and raise awareness about responsible vehicle decommissioning worldwide.

SHiFT®, the Vehicle Retirement Initiative committed to sustainable auto recycling, has named former Amazon executive Chapin Griffith as its first Director of Vehicle Retirement Services. Griffith previously managed Amazon’s fleet remarketing operations, developing strategies that retired more than 20,000 vehicles annually. Now, he joins SHiFT® to help scale environmentally responsible end-of-life vehicle recycling across the U.S. and beyond. In Auto Remarketing, Griffith discusses how SHiFT® is tackling one of the industry’s biggest challenges: managing aging vehicle fleets efficiently and sustainably while ensuring retired cars are fully recycled — not resold or exported to pollute elsewhere.

Floodwaters from recent hurricanes have damaged more than 347,000 vehicles across the U.S., but what may seem like total loss could actually hold significant value. In Recycling Today, ReElement Technologies and national organizations like the Automotive Recyclers Association and SHiFT® discuss how recyclers can extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from storm-damaged vehicles. These valuable materials — used in EV batteries, magnets, and other components — can be purified and reintroduced into manufacturing, supporting the circular economy and reducing reliance on imports. Responsible vehicle recycling transforms disaster recovery into sustainable resource recovery.

Australia’s leading network of professional auto recyclers, Parts Plus, is expanding its sustainability mission through a new collaboration with SHiFT®. In this Auto Recycling World feature, General Manager Chris Nobbs discusses how the partnership brings SHiFT’s initiative to Australia — aligning the country’s recycling network with global efforts to promote green parts and carbon-positive vehicle retirement. By working with the Automotive Recyclers Association and embracing SHiFT’s data-driven, environmentally responsible framework, Parts Plus continues to raise the bar for safety, compliance, and collaboration across the recycled auto parts industry.

The SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative® (SHiFT), a global social enterprise committed to helping consumers and companies recycle End-of-Life Vehicles with environmentally responsible protocols from start to finish, has hired its first-ever Director of Vehicle Retirement Services with the addition of Chapin Griffith to its leadership team. Griffith joins the company from Amazon, where he served as the company's senior product manager of delivery fleet remarketing. He is based in Denver.

M&M Auto Parts announced that it has agreed to partner with the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative™, a social enterprise committed to helping consumers and companies responsibly recycle vehicles with environmentally responsible protocols from start to finish

To keep pace with an evolving auto recycling industry, the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA) launched the Automotive Recycling Training Institute (ARTI) to centralize and modernize its education programs. In Recycling Today, ARA Executive Director Sandy Blalock discusses ARTI’s expanded curriculum, including safety training for EV dismantling, fire prevention, and bilingual accessibility. The story also spotlights ARTI’s partnership with SHiFT® on the Vehicle Retirement Initiative, a program incentivizing recyclers to reuse original parts from end-of-life vehicles. Through education, certification, and collaboration, ARTI and SHiFT® are shaping a safer, more sustainable future for vehicle recycling.

SHiFT aims to ensure that vehicles taken in to benefit charities meet an environmentally responsible end.

SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative™, is the first national vehicle retirement program focused primarily on carbon emissions and environmental health in the United States. Leaders at SHiFT are determined to do things differently than have been done in the past; quite simply, SHiFT is putting the environment first.

The internal combustion engine is a mainstay of both the automotive and the recycling industries. As automotive manufacturers progress towards electrification, more people are looking for ways to retire their ICE vehicles with the assurance of knowing they will be reducing their carbon footprint. Enter the SHiFT Vehicle Retirement Initiative, an End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) program that provides significant incentives for Certified Automotive Recyclers to remove or re-use as many original equipment parts from ELV vehicles as possible.

In Recycling Today, SHiFT® announces its groundbreaking Vehicle Retirement Initiative — a national program that helps consumers recycle end-of-life vehicles responsibly while reducing their carbon footprint. Partnering with the Automotive Recycling Training Institute (ARTI), SHiFT® ensures every vehicle is dismantled in accordance with environmental best practices and that quality reused parts stay in circulation. By retiring older, less efficient internal combustion vehicles, SHiFT® supports cleaner air, stronger recycling networks, and the circular reuse of automotive materials. Vehicle owners participating in the program may also qualify for a charitable tax deduction.