Japan - Recycling Paper

• PHILIPPINE MINING ACT OF 1995 and its
RIRR
– Enshrined the principles of responsible
mining through sustainable
development, including:
• The use of best practices to reduce impacts of mining;
• The conservation of minerals should be effected not only
through recycling of mineral based products to lengthen
their usable life but also through the technological efficiency
of mining operations.
• PHILIPPINE EIS SYSTEM

– Environmental Compliance Certificate
– Social and Environmental Acceptability
– Management Plans
• Ecological Solid Waste Management Act – promotes the
establishment of Materials Recovery Facility to strengthen of
enforcement and institutionalization of the principles of 3R.
• Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste

Control Act – mandated industrial facilities to implement
hazardous wastes segregation and recycling program;
provided guidelines on import and export of recyclable
materials in response to Basel Convention, i.e., plastic
materials, scrap metals, used oil, electronic assemblies and
scraps.
• Promotion of Philippine Environmental (Public-Private)

Partnership Program – provides regulatory incentives to
facilities and industry associations implementing pollution
prevention program leading to compliance with the
requirements of international certification on Environmental
Management.
• The major metals presently recycled in the
Philippines are cast iron, alloy steel,
aluminum, brass, bronze and lead.
• The Philippines also produces rare earth

metals (selenium and tellurium) and nickel
oxide and carbonates from locally/
externally sourced materials as well as
gold, silver and palladium.
TYPICAL RECYCLING
FLOWCHART
household industrial and commercial

establishments
metal industries
recyclable scrap collectors
Iron and Steel Products
Two main raw materials of steel

manufacturing plants in the country
– PIG IRON (10-20%)

– SCRAP (80-90%) ≈ 1.38 MT
Four (4) major industry users of iron and steel
products classified by market type
INDUSTRY TYPE %CONSUMPTION

1.Construction 70%
2.Light fabrication/ machineries, etc 12%
3.Heavy fabrication/ship repair, etc 6%
4.Container/ can making 12%
100%
These products are generally classified
into two (2) categories namely:
1. Flat Products – rolled steel, plates,

slabs, sheets, tubes & pipes
2. Long Products – wires, bars and rods,
blooms and billets
MAJOR NON-FERROUS METALS
RECYCLED IN THE PHILIPPINES
1. Copper
2. Aluminum
3. Lead
COPPER AND COPPER ALLOYS
• One copper smelter
• Two operating copper mines, several are opening in
the next 2 to 3 years
• 15 small melting plants using scrap bronze and
brass.
• Only about 10% of the smelters production is locally
utilized, the rest of the copper and copper alloy
consumption are from scraps and imports.
• Typical products are water valves, containers,
hinges, faucets, door knobs, and handles
ALUMINUM
• No commercial mine for bauxite,
• On going mineral exploration
• All aluminum consumption are imported or
from aluminum scraps
• Re-melters produce aluminum ingots
• Extrusion/stamping plants plants produce
flat, long drawn window/door frames,
cooking wares, aluminum cans.
LEAD
• Philippines is not a lead producing country

• No commercially viable lead mines in the
country
• Country is totally dependent on imported
lead
• Major users of lead are the battery
manufacturers with paint and chemical
producers
LEAD
• Domestic industry consumes an

estimated 60 thousand metric tons of
lead a year. Of this, it is estimated
that 85-90 % is supplied by recyclers.
Lead Industry Players
• Lead recycling industry consists of the users and the
producers - users are basically the battery
manufacturers while the producers can be broken up
into the formal and informal categories.
• The formal category represents about 85 - 90% of the
industry consists of legitimate battery recyclers
operating with proper government permits and licenses
• The informal sector representing 10-15 %, consists of
industry players who operate as backyard businesses
without the necessary permits and cannot comply with
pollution controls required by law
Philippine Recyclers, Inc.
Philippine Recyclers, Inc.
• Production Capacity: 36,000 MT / year
• Primary Raw Material: Scrap lead-acid batteries
• Lead Recovery Method: Pyrometallurgical process
using a Reverberatory and Blast Furnace
• Anti-pollution Methods: Feed material de-
sulfurization, Furnace exhaust filtration bag houses,
Waste water clarifiers, Secure temporary solid waste
storage pits
• Manpower: 230 employees , 140 regular, 90
contractuals
PRI is the first lead
smelter in the
Philippines, in Asia and
only the third in the
world to be certified to
ISO 14001
Certified October 15, 1999
Certified to ISO 9002, Dec 2000
Re-certified to ISO 14001 by

TUV Product Service
Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.,
December, 2002
a joint project of
Rare Earth Metals
• Pacific Rare Specialty Metals and Chemicals, Inc. is a major
producer of tellurium, accounting over 50% of total world
production of tellurium metal. and tellurium dioxide combined.
• Tellurium is extracted from local and imported copper telluride,
which is the worlds major primary source of tellurium. Copper
telluride is the product of the copper refining industry.
• The selenium for refining originates from the world's major
copper refineries and is produced by either direct reduction
selenium dioxide with sulphur dioxide or reduction of selenious
acid solution.
Recycling of Wastes from the
Semiconductor and Electronics
Industries
• Integrated Recycling Industries (IRI) specializes in solid waste
recycling and reclamation and has been servicing primarily the
semiconductor and electronics industries, recycles and reclaims
these materials which are mostly non-ferrous and precious
metals.
• Non-ferrous metals such as copper, nickel, tin, aluminum and
metal alloy from CU end rails, Alloy 42 frames, TR dummies, CU
chips, IC dummies, Rejected Al parts and Wires and Cables
• Precious metals such as gold, silver, and palladium from CPGA,
AU trimmings, AU pins, SOT, Module units, FPGA, PCB with
components
Nickel Oxides and Carbonates
• Umicore Group of Belgium produces nickel oxides

and carbonates in powder form for local and
international use at a rate of 1.5 and 0.33 tons/day
plus 1.5 tons nickel.
• Materials sourced from Australia, US, Belgium and
Africa.
• End market is mainly Japan and China.
• Employs acid leaching and precipitation, solvent
extraction and sulfuric acid technologies.
IMPORT OF FERROUS AND NON-FERROUS
SCRAPS (AY 2006)
Import And Export Of Iron And Steel
IMPORT, EXPORT, GROSS
COMMODITY
GROSS TONS TONS
Cast Iron Scrap 113,080 91,523,166
Stainless Steel Scrap 606,016 21,279,911
Alloy Steel Scrap 32,941,494 2,239,478
Ferrous Waste and Scrap 247,640 50,219,792
Tinned Iron/Steel Scrap 676,611,365
TOTAL 33,908,230 841,873,712

IMPORT AND EXPORT OF NON-FERROUS
METALS AND ALLOYS (2006)
COMMODITY IMPORT EXPORT
GROSS TONS GROSS TONS

COPPER
a. Scrap and Waste 3,037,430 21,807,065
b. Brass Scrap and Waste 3,195 3,165,142
ALUMINUM
Scrap and Waste 761,836 14,368,664
ZINC
Scrap and Waste 419,348 3,293,764
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF NON-FERROUS
METALS AND ALLOYS (2006)
IMPORT, EXPORT,
COMMODITY
GROSS TONS GROSS TONS
Nickel Scrap and Waste 9,524 931
Tin Scrap and Waste 3,090 21,621,252
Lead Scrap and Waste 395 879,303
Precious Metals other
434,683
than Gold
The Philippines is an environmentally- oriented
country with laws, rules and regulations
covering most environmental issue. However,
much remains to be done in the area of
metals/minerals recycling/recovery.
Several legislation are currently pending in

Philippine Congress (e.g., Computer Recycling
Law) which hopefully can provide incentives
and other government support for potential
investors.
www.DENR.gov.ph
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
www.MGB.gov.ph
Mines and Geosciences Bureau

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• PHILIPPINE MINING ACT OF 1995 and its

• PHILIPPINE EIS SYSTEM

• Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste

• Promotion of Philippine Environmental (Public-Private)

• The Philippines also produces rare earth

household industrial and commercial

Two main raw materials of steel

– PIG IRON (10-20%)

INDUSTRY TYPE %CONSUMPTION

1. Flat Products – rolled steel, plates,

• Philippines is not a lead producing country

• Domestic industry consumes an

Certified October 15, 1999

Certified to ISO 9002, Dec 2000

Re-certified to ISO 14001 by

• Umicore Group of Belgium produces nickel oxides

Cast Iron Scrap 113,080 91,523,166

Stainless Steel Scrap 606,016 21,279,911

Alloy Steel Scrap 32,941,494 2,239,478

Ferrous Waste and Scrap 247,640 50,219,792

Tinned Iron/Steel Scrap 676,611,365

TOTAL 33,908,230 841,873,712

COMMODITY IMPORT EXPORT

GROSS TONS GROSS TONS

Several legislation are currently pending in

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