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It has a reason, why Sweden is popular for the best junk yards of Europe. 
@marioman: it depends on the country, if the plate is seen as an document or not. For example in Denmark, Austria and Switzerland it's impossible to keep the old plate, when a car is wrecked. They have to be destroyed by the authority. In Switzerland -in Belgium, too- you can use the plate for the next car again.
In Britain and Sweden the plate is not important. There the registration-sticker at the windscreen is the evidence for the registration. So the plates have no special meaning. In Germany the small silver sticker on the plate is important. When it's on the plate, it's an document, when it's scratched off (neccessary, when you change the registration), it's just a piece of alumimium and you can do with it, what you want (except using it again in the traffic).
@marioman: it depends on the country, if the plate is seen as an document or not. For example in Denmark, Austria and Switzerland it's impossible to keep the old plate, when a car is wrecked. They have to be destroyed by the authority. In Switzerland -in Belgium, too- you can use the plate for the next car again.
In Britain and Sweden the plate is not important. There the registration-sticker at the windscreen is the evidence for the registration. So the plates have no special meaning. In Germany the small silver sticker on the plate is important. When it's on the plate, it's an document, when it's scratched off (neccessary, when you change the registration), it's just a piece of alumimium and you can do with it, what you want (except using it again in the traffic).