The article provides statistics on the state of the recycling industry in the Sverdlovsk region, including enterprises engaged in utilisation cars and their wastes. The trend of decommissioning of cars was analized. A system of factors, that determine the location of infrastructure objects of the recycling system, was offered. On the basis of the gravitational model were built maps of the density of settlement and waste generation, which serve as the basis for choosing the position of large plants for processing vehicles.