The scheme is a load of scrap!

The Government's car scrappage scheme was a funny one from the start. The Government initially branded it a green initiative, which was later abandoned as one of the key motives and reduced to simply advising people to buy more efficient vehicles. Then the primary issue for the scheme was to boost the car manufacturing industry with no real mention of how it might help the struggling scrap industry.
However, I wanted to flare up the fact that although it may not have a been a brilliant success boosting British business - as it seems that many of the foreign car manufactures have taken most of the sales - it has kept many Brits in work, with some manufacturers even having to expand their workforce.
Most importantly, regarding the recycling and waste management sector, the scheme has definitely helped out those in the scrap industry who are apart of the action. I would say this has been a fantastic scheme in that respect.
The success has been patchy as only a predicted 30 per cent of Approved Treatment Facilities are apart of the scheme, so there is room for improvement but I'm still pretty chuffed that after all the negative speculation it has made a bit of a difference.

Tiffany Holland, Reporter, MRW