Yes you are using scopes wrong. Scopes receive the current query builder and return the builder. You are creating a new query builder. If you look at the docs you will see all the examples for local scopes receive a $query variable and call methods on that $query variable.
public function scopeNotDefault($query) {
return $query->where('pp_id', '!=', 1);
}
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