After providing a brief overview on Europe?s legislative situation with regard to the demanded recovering and recycling of end-of-life vehicles the paper characterizes the specifications of a modeling approach describing the design of a recycling network including a large variety of different cooperating actors set at diverse positions on a reverse supply-chain. It advances with a discussion of requirements a suitable optimization approach needs to fulfill. Then it proceeds by addressing the optimization approach that has been chosen and it concludes by providing results for an ideal network design.