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(Washington, DC) – Serving as the Voice of the Recycling Industry™, and in an effort to ensure appropriate compliance with draft standards and the continued import of recycled raw materials for use by manufacturers in China, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) submitted comments to the Government of China on its draft GB/T standards for “recycled steel raw materials.”

In its comments, ReMA commends the Government of China for developing standards for imports of “recycled steel raw materials”. However, ReMA also suggests clarity on recycling operations as well as aligning the Chinese standards codes with ReMA specification codes to ensure proper compliance with the regulations set out in the draft standards.

Excerpts from ISRI’s comments follow (full text of comments in English and Chinese)

…  We commend the Government for the work undertaken to develop these draft standards, and we hope our comments will ensure appropriate compliance with the standards and the continued import of recycled raw materials for use by manufacturers in China.

 3.13 Shredding

“Crushing” and “shredding” are very different operations; “crushing” does not adequately explain “shredding”.

…  We recommend the following explanation of shredding:

A highly mechanized process of fragmentizing automobiles, appliances, scrap steel and other large recyclable materials into smaller, usable recycled commodities.

 4.1 Processing Methods, Figures 1-6

For the processing methods diagramed in figures 1-6, we are confused by the first stage being called “wool” [毛料]. This is not a common term in the global steel industry and causes confusion as to what are acceptable starting points for “recycled steel raw materials.” We recommend using the term “steel scrap” [废钢].

4.2 Category Name and Code

We recommend that an additional column be added to Table 1 referencing the ReMA Specification code for each product. …

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The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) is the "Voice of the Recycling Industry™." ReMA represents 1,300 companies in 20 chapters in the U.S. and more than 40 countries that process, broker, and consume scrap commodities, including metals, paper, plastics, glass, rubber, electronics, and textiles. With headquarters in Washington, DC, the Institute provides education, advocacy, safety and compliance training, and promotes public awareness of the vital role recycling plays in the U.S. economy, global trade, the environment and sustainable development. Generating nearly $110 billion annually in U.S. economic activity, the scrap recycling industry provides more than 500,000 Americans with good jobs.