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Chandigarh Nov. 24, 2020:- Even as domestic demand for aluminium is likely to grow from current 3.7 MT in 2020 to 6.0 MT by 2025, however over 60% of the country's aluminium demand is still met by imports majorly in the form of aluminium scrap.
Thus there is an urgent need for BIS standards for aluminium scrap to address quality, environment & safety concerns, as per global benchmarks and check the recycling, usage, and imports of sub-standard scrap.
China's National Sword Policy and other measures to restrict scrap import has resulted in the diversion of entire global scrap chain towards India. As a result, India has overtaken China as the largest importer of aluminium scrap in the world.
This has not only adversely impacted the domestic industry but also leading to high consumption of unchecked, sub-standard scrap due to lack of any quality checks rendering a huge risk of inferior quality of end-products being used in critical applications across the nation.
The absence of any quality standards and import monitoring for scrap has rendered India a dumping ground for scrap from other countries. Countries with high aluminium consumption like China and other countries of the European Union have laid down strict standards and guidelines for scrap imports and processing & pre-processing of scrap.
Most of the aluminium scrap finding its way into India is from the USA, which is diverting large volumes of scrap into our country, as China, EU and other developed countries have stringent standards. China, a leading consumer of aluminium, has taken various measures to restrict scrap imports through its National Sword Policy.
The country's environment custodian, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stressed and highlighted multiple times, the concerns related to environmental pollution and activities by the scrap recycling industry in Delhi NCR and various other locations, due to illegal and unauthorized scrap recycling and scrapping units.
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