Recycling: Aluminium

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to extend the provisions of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 to support charitable groups collecting household aluminium for recycling.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 17th June 2020

We supported the introduction of the?Scrap?Metal?Dealers?Act 2013 to reverse an upward trend in levels of metal theft through better regulation of the metal recycling sector. The changes introduced by the 2013 Act require all scrap metal dealers to obtain a scrap metal licence from their local authority, including charities collecting household aluminium for recycling.

Due to the nature of the licensing process, each application for a scrap metal dealer’s licence – site licence or mobile collector licence – must be accompanied by a fee, which is calculated on the basis of recovering certain administration costs and ensuring compliance with the licensing scheme. However, we continuously work with local authorities and other agencies to understand the impacts of the 2013 Act and how it functions, including on charitable groups.

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