Sony launches electronics 'scrappage scheme'

Norman Wells wrote:
Martin wrote:

Scrappage cars are shipped to Africa by car transporters.

As are most cars that are stolen in the UK, so they say.


I saw that TV programme too

I couldn't find simple spares in a Dutch scrap yard for a 14 year old
Nissan because all the Nissans had been shipped to Africa.

On Sat, 8 May 2010 12:10:15 +0100, "Norman Wells"
wrote:

Martin wrote:

Scrappage cars are shipped to Africa by car transporters.

As are most cars that are stolen in the UK, so they say.

That's not all, I heard tell of a giant huge crane that "disappeared"
never to be seen again. Almost certainly knocked down and exported as
boxes of parts, about 300 tonnes of them.

On Fri, 07 May 2010 12:40:51 +0100, Tony wrote:


I would say the main aim of this is to sell slow moving product, and
just like car dealers they will simply increase the price to accommodate
the reduction advertised in the scrappage scheme, and like most
marketing lies it works and is perfectly legal provided the items are
displayed at the higher price for a month in one shop. The regulation
does not meet its requirements to stop retailers deliberately increasing
the price so they can advertise a price reduction.

It's been done before, some manufacturers actually admitted to buying
up other makers' kit by giving good part exchange deals simply to
destroy the secondhand market by taking "the competition" out of play.

As far as recycling goes, reuse or continued use is the best recycling
and recommended by the WEEE regulations. Unless they are reusing
components (which I really doubt) this will just go into mass recycling
and metal recovery which will require large amount of energy, albeit
less than that required by digging up new materials.

There are EEC and other regulations purporting to protect the
environment whch are actually designed to prevent re-use and recycling
(as in scrapyards and maintaining vintage equipment) and force people
to replace with new.