In 2019, the Government of India announced Steel Scrap Recycling Policy which aims to reduce imports; ensure processing and recycling of steel scrap in an organized, safe, and environment-friendly manner; ensure production of high-quality ferrous scrap for quality steel production thus minimizing the dependency on imports; conserve resources and save energy; and create a vibrant and responsive ecosystem. If the policy is implemented in letter and spirit, it can ensure quality steel for the steel industry.

The scrap recycling policy –  

• Envisages a framework for facilitating and promoting establishment of metal scrapping centres across India. The role of the Government of India will be to provide a framework to facilitate and promote establishment of metal scrapping centres in India, and not setting-up of scrap centres in the country. This will ensure scientific processing and recycling of ferrous scrap generated from different sources and a host of products.

• Decongest the Indian cities from the reuse of ferrous scrap.

• Create and establish a mechanism for treating waste streams and residues produced from dismantling and shredding facilities, in compliance with Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management & TransBoundary Movement) Rules, 2016, issued by the Ministry of Environment & Forests.

• Promote formal and scientific collection, dismantling, and processing activities for end of life products that are sources of recyclable (ferrous, non-ferrous, and other non-metallic) scraps. This will lead to resource conservation and energy savings.

• Create a responsive ecosystem and produce high quality ferrous scrap for quality steel production.

• Setting up of an environmentally sound management system for handling ferrous scrap.

To ensure that the policy’s aims eventually produces a successful outcome, the policy has laid down guidelines for the setting-up and responsibilities of dismantling centre and scrap processing centre; roles of aggregators and responsibilities of the manufacturer, government, and owner; and collection, dismantling, and shredding activities in an organized, safe, and environmentally secure manner.

The sale of scrap steel will be governed by guidelines and market conditions at the time of sale of scrap steel. Apart from the Ministry of Steel, the other ministries involved in sanctioning scrap centers will be the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways; and the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change.

Based on “6Rs principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Redesign, & Remanufacture through scientific handling, processing and disposal of all kinds of recyclable scraps including non-ferrous scraps, and authorized centers/facility, the steel scrap recycling policy aims to minimize dependency on imports; reduce the gap between demand and supply of scrap in the future, and guarantee that quality scrap is available for the steel industry thereby ensuring that India becomes self-sufficient in scrap steel by 2030, and has a globally competitive steel industry that adopts state-of-the-art environment-friendly technologies.

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