Sweden has banned car scrappers from selling 'pick-your-own parts' to ordinary consumers. The fear is the classic car scrapper.
While we can still hunt for parts at the country's car scrappers here, the pick-your-own part has been banned in Sweden.
Carup writes.
The background is a new decision from the Land and Environmental Court, which, according to the media, makes self-picking at car scrapyards virtually impossible.
One of the major car scrappers, Delplocken, which is a chain with several car scrapping sites in Sweden, has also decided to close the pick-up sites that they had operated until now.
– The closure of our self-selection business within Autocirc is a natural step forward.
– In light of the trend and development we see in the market in the form of increased demands for traceability of car parts throughout the entire value chain, says Gisela Nordlin, Marketing Manager at Autocirc, who has operated a number of locations in Sweden.
At the Swedish Scrap Dealers Association, several members have begun to close down the pick-up locations, even though the director, Andreas Frössberg, thinks it is an unfortunate development.
But the director explains the closures by saying that the new decision in the Land and Environmental Court means that all parts from the scrapped cars must be environmentally treated before they can be sold to consumers at all.
And according to Andreas Frössberg, this is a business that is not profitable.
