If you have decided to do the right thing by scrapping and recycling your old car, you at least should ensure that you get the very best value for money. The simple fact of the matter is that when you are passing on any scrap car of any kind and in any manner whatsoever, you […]
You might think that the recycling and car scrapping industry does not have rogue traders. However, it would be so wrong of you to think like that. Rogue trading is in fact quite common in the scrap metal industry and you will often encounter people who are simply interested in filling their pockets and nothing […]
Cars have a limited life and after a period of time lose their usability. Such cars are usually dumped in landfills where they remain for eternity and slowly degrade into elements that end up polluting the environment. Recycling old cars is an efficient way of putting scrap cars to good use. Aside from the fact […]
Here at Take My Scrap Car, we’re always on the lookout for the most interesting and inspiring stories when it comes to car recycling and scrapping on a global basis. That being said, every now and again we come across the kind of story which along with ticking both of these boxes also makes us […]
The United Kingdom has for quite some time now been covered by the EU’s End of Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive. In the simplest of terms, this means that when motor vehicles up to a maximum of 3.5-tonnes in weight are taken out of use, it is a legal requirement for them to be appropriately disposed […]
As you probably know by now, Take My Scrap Car is all about doing what’s right by the environment. Everything we do is geared toward ensuring that the kinds of clapped-out old bangers than have no place on British roads are scrapped and recycled appropriately. And we work extremely hard to get the job done, […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the car scrapping and recycling industry would be one relatively free of cowboys and rogue traders. But you’d also be entirely mistaken – the scrap metal industry is quite simply rife with those who have no intention of playing by the rules…just and as long as their own pockets […]
Here at Take My Scrap Car, our approach to contemporary car recycling is technically quite simple. We spend our time proactively searching for cars at the end of their usable lives, we collect them personally and we pay for them. After this, it’s off to the recycling plant to be processed and melted down, creating […]
If you know Take My Scrap Car, you’ll know that the only thing we like better than recycling is reuse. After all, the whole purpose of recycling is to ensure that as much stuff gets used and reused as many times as possible, which means that if it can be used again in the first […]
Here at Take My Scrap Car, one of the questions we find ourselves being asked more than any other is that of how certain services claiming to ‘buy any car’ no-questions-asked do what they do? After all, it’s clear that many of these brands and businesses aren’t in the scrapping or recycling game, so how […]
