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Regulation 4
The preparation of scrap metal for recycling.
“Preparation” is only shredding, fragmentation, pre-treatment and melting of scrap.
“Scrap” is only—
post–consumer scrap, namely, goods that have performed the function for which they were designed and have been discarded (for example, end of life road vehicles, discarded food cans, steel girders or rods from demolished buildings, worn out battery electrodes, discarded lead roofing);
scrap generated from the process of which that preparation forms part or from a different process (for example, off–cuts from metal stampings, unmarketable goods).
“Metal” is only aluminium, lead or steel.
“Melting” is only—
the pre-heating and first melting of scrap before casting into intermediates; or
the heating of scrap as part of the recycling process before any solidification and re-melting.
It excludes melting of any type of non-scrap metal added to the recycling process to improve the quality or adjust the composition of the recycled metal or intermediates.
“Intermediates” are only items for further processing or re-melting, such as rolling slabs or ingots.
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