Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The vehicle scrappage scheme (also vehicle discount scheme and car scrappage scheme) is a government incentive scheme that was introduced in the 2009 United Kingdom Budget to encourage British motorists to purchase a new, more environmentally-friendly car or van and scrap an older, more polluting one that they have owned for more than twelve months.
A scrappage program is a government incentive program to promote the replacement of old vehicles with modern vehicles. Scrappage programs generally have the dual aim of stimulating the automobile industry and removing inefficient, more polluting vehicles from the road.
Vehicle recycling has always occurred to some degree but in recent years manufacturers have become involved in the process. A car crusher is often used to reduce the size of scrapped vehicles for simplified transportation to a steel mill. Approximately 12-15 million vehicles reach the end of their useful life each year in just the United States ...
The Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 (c. 10) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which repealed the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 (c. 69), certain linked legislation, and part 1 of Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 relating to scrap metal dealers. [2]
Arizona: According to Arizona law, an "abandoned vehicle" is a vehicle, trailer or semitrailer that is subject to registration and has been abandoned on public or private property, whether lost, stolen, abandoned or otherwise unclaimed. [4] Boston: Abandoned vehicles are safety hazards and they blight our neighborhoods. If you abandon your car ...
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) was an executive agency granted trading fund status in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Transport of the United Kingdom Government. It was announced on 20 June 2013 that VOSA would merge with the Driving Standards Agency into a single agency in 2014. [ 3 ]
It is an offence under section 178 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to take and drive away a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner or, knowing the vehicle has been taken, to drive it or be carried in it. [4] The offence is intended to be used where a motor vehicle is taken, driven away and later abandoned.
The aim is the reduction of hazardous substances in vehicles to minimise their release to the environment. Vehicles should be designed to facilitate proper dismantling and to allow components and materials to be reused, recycled and/or recovered. The producers (both vehicle and component) shall increase the demand for recycled material.