One of the most annoying things about the government scrappage scheme of 2009 was that although it was aimed at getting old jalopies off the road, the incentive of £2000 towards a new car was, in practice, far more appealing to people owning mid priced cars. They were very happy to scrap cars that still had several years’ service left in them, collect the cash and put it towards a brand new car. This means that now there are very few second hand cars of the £2000 mark for sale, but lots and lots of old cars, on their last legs so to speak. So now what do you do if you want to scrap a car? Many companies will offer to collect your car and scrap it for free. But very few offer to do much more than crush it. If you car is still taxed and MOT’d and driveable, it is better to take it to a scrap dealer yourself. Get it weighed in and get the cash for it. That is all the companies offering to collect it for free will be doing. Why let them have the money? It could be £100 or more. However, there are companies now that offer a free environmentally friendly car recycling service and that will donate some of the money they raise to charity. They simply pickup your vehicle within three days and dismantle it in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. As car recyclers they specialise in the cleaning and repairing your existing car parts so that they can be used on existing road vehicles. The metal parts that cannot be reused go for scrap, get melted down and reused somehow and only a very little, mostly the plastic ends up in landfill. And with UK landfill space running out in just a few years, this has got to be an appealing option.