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Reply:
Mr President,
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The Transport Department has a contract with a scrap dealer for him to purchase vehicles from the two Government Vehicle Surrender Centres and the Police pounds, as well as those abandoned on Crown land. The contractor collected 2517 such vehicles in the year ending 30 June 1993, 2099 in 1994 and 1983 in 1995. Details are annexed. We have no information on the numbers of vehicles that are taken direct to private scrap dealers. However, 33,700 vehicles were deregistered in the year ending 30 June 1993, 32,400 in 1994 and 38,200 in 1995. A large proportion of these vehicles will have been scrapped.
No information is available on the percentage by weight of old motor vehicles recycled or disposed of in Government land fills. However, there is a commercial incentive for scrap dealers to maximise recycling and to minimise the amount of material that has to be taken to the land fills.