Scrap cars at a recycling centre, Opladen near Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
(2009) The German Government is paying drivers a €2,500 subsidy who scrap an old car and buy a new or nearly new replacement. To get the money drivers must scrap an existing car that's at least nine years old and buy a new one that meets the latest emissions standards. So far, 134,000 people have applied for the so called scarp bonus, a number rising by 7,000 a day. A survey by research institute Forsa found that of 16 million Germans who own a sufficiently old car, million people firmly plan to use the scrap bonus and many more are thinking about it.
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Location: Opladen near Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Environmental / Alamy / Afripics
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