Gotland has 35,299 cars in traffic and 11,578 canceled, according to the trade organization BIL Sweden. More than 5000 are estimated to be scrap finished. And this with a population of 59,249 inhabitants (SCB 2018-12-31) on the island.
During May and June, the campaign "Clean your car" was carried out where the goal was to collect 1000 scrap cars on the island. But the response was cool, only a few hundred nipped on the offer, according to helagotland.se.
- We had hoped to bring in thousands of cars for recycling, it was probably hopeful. But it is also a result, we must be satisfied, ”Anna Henstedt, environmental manager at Bil Sweden, tells the newspaper.