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Scrapping Your Car? Here’s What You DON’T Have to Do

Contrary to popular belief, there are far more complicated and traumatic things in life than scrapping your car. After all, when you think of the contribution you are making to the wider UK recycling cause, it’s actually something to feel quite good about!

Still, there are certain service providers who have a tendency to over complicate […]

By |August 20th, 2018|0 Comments

Take My Scrap Car: Striving for Simplicity

If you’ve been keeping your eye on our blog as of late, first of all – thanks! Secondly, you may have noticed something of a theme with regard to the problems facing the overall UK recycling system at the moment.

With official statistics having noted the first ever decline in the UK’s average annual recycling rate, […]

By |August 14th, 2018|0 Comments

When to Walk Away From a Scrap Car Deal

You’d be forgiven for thinking that in this day and age, scrapping a car would be relatively simple. Or if not simple, at least consistent. In reality however, this is an industry just like any other. Which in turn means that service standards and what you can expect will always vary massively from one service […]

By |August 5th, 2018|0 Comments

Recycling Mistakes You Might Be Making

Here at Take My Scrap Car, we have a strong interest in all aspects of recycling across the board. While it may by car recycling we ourselves specialise in, we’re interested in anything connected with reuse and recycling across the board. Which is why a recent article caught our eye, detailing a few of the […]

By |July 22nd, 2018|0 Comments

Why Choose Take My Scrap Car? For Five Good Reasons!

All across the United Kingdom, the number of car scrapping and recycling services is growing all the time. Having realised that there’s plenty of value in even the most dilapidated scrap cars, entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes are entering the market all the time.

Which in turn means that when the time comes for you […]

By |July 15th, 2018|0 Comments

What Are the Hardest Household Items to Recycle?

There are two critically important facts about recycling that most people these days are fully aware of:

Most things can be recycled
It’s something we should all be doing more of

For the most part, separating household rubbish and making sure we do our ‘bit’ for the environment is something most do instinctively. But what many […]

By |July 7th, 2018|0 Comments

Can Collecting Catches On – 70% Now Recycled

Chances are that if you cast your mind back to the late eighties and early nineties, you’ll probably remember a time when everyday household recycling focused primarily on one humble item. That being, the aluminium drinks can. Up and down the United Kingdom, kids and adults of all ages not only began separating their own […]

By |June 30th, 2018|0 Comments

Make Car Companies Pay For the Air Pollution Crisis, Experts Say

A leading environmental expert has stated that the escalating air pollution crisis in the United Kingdom, now known to be fuelled by diesel emissions, should be the responsibility of the motor companies themselves to address. As it stands, diesel drivers are given relatively little incentive to scrap their cars and upgrade, as many within the […]

By |June 26th, 2018|0 Comments

The Five Ways the Gov. Plans to Tackle Air Pollution

Over the past couple of years, we’ve been hearing a great deal of chatter from local and national government representatives alike, with regard to how and to what extent UK motorists should be made to play a role in bringing air pollution under control. As far as policy makers are concerned, the problem is one […]

By |June 12th, 2018|0 Comments

British Clothing Recycling Still Very Sub-Par

The funny thing is that while we generally take recycling very seriously in the United Kingdom, comparatively few residents realise just how wasteful we really are. We might be relatively meticulous when it comes to separating everyday household waste, but when it comes to the amount of clothing that disappears into the ether every year…well, […]

By |June 2nd, 2018|0 Comments