Legal loophole allows 1 million cars per year to be illegally scrapped in the UK
Greencars.co.uk is reporting a legal loophole which allows a million cars per year to be illegally scrapped in the UK. This means that most of them are going to be in landfills with oils, tyres and airbags still on/in the car. Under a system called continuous licensing, owners are supposed to pay road tax until a Certificate of Destruction is obtained from a licensed dismantler. However, a tick-box on the registration form means the last owners, as well as unlicensed dismantlers and shredders, can simply de-register a vehicle. This means that although recyelers might recover some valuable parts from the cars, the "bad" vehicles - potentially the most polluting - often aren't treated.
[Source: Greencars]
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Luke 12:05PM (5/03/2008)
Isn't "legal loophole that allows cars to be illegally scrapped" an oxymoron?
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GenWaylaid 2:51AM (5/03/2008)
I don't get it. What's so bad about sending the car straight to the junkyard? Quite a few people in the U.S. keep broken old cars in their YARDS, for chrissakes.
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