The Regulations define criteria to assure that iron, steel, aluminum and copper scraps meet the technical requirements of the metal producing industry, comply with existing legislation and standards applicable to products and do not lead to overall adverse environmental or human health impacts. In this case scrap ceases to be a waste and become secundary raw materials because they are “devoid of hazardous properties and sufficiently free of non-metallic compounds”.
In order to issue of a certificate with 3 years validity, IGQ carries out an audit on the management systems that includes the acceptance control of wastes used in recovery, monitoring of treatment processes and techniques, monitoring of quality of metal scrap obtained by recovery and the effectiveness of the radiation monitoring.