Metals: Waste Disposal

(asked on 30th April 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Spellar Portrait
Lord Spellar
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the (1) value, and (2) tonnage of (a) scrap copper and, (b) scrap steel, that the UK exported in the last year for which figures are available.

Answered by
Lord Livermore Portrait
Lord Livermore
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 12th May 2025

The value and tonnage of scrap steel and copper exported from the UK in 2024 is as follows:

Table 1: The UK's scrap steel* and copper exports in 2024, by export value (£millions) and net mass (thousand tonnes)

Export Value (£millions)

Exports Net Mass (million tonnes)

Scrap steel*

2,490.4

7.5

Scrap copper

1,334.5

0.3

Grand Total

3,824.9

7.8

Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics, uktradeinfo, compiled on 30th April 2025

*Please note that some of the commodity codes reported in the Table 1 above include elements of scrap iron.

Data is provisional for up to 18 months after it is published. The data can be revised and corrected during this time.

Please see OTS methodology for details. The table shown is compiled of both EU and Non-EU export trade. This data is compiled from the following commodity codes:

72042110 Waste and scrap of stainless steel, containing by weight >= 8% nickel

72042190 Waste and scrap of stainless steel not containing >= 8% nickel

72042900 Waste and scrap of alloy steel

72043000 Waste and scrap of tinned iron or steel

72044110 Turnings, shavings, chips, milling waste, sawdust and filings, of iron or steel, whether or not in bundles

72044191 Trimmings and stampings, of iron or steel, in bundles

72044199 Trimmings and stampings, of iron or steel, not in bundles

72044910 Waste and scrap of iron or steel, fragmentised "shredded"

72044930 Waste and scrap of iron or steel, not fragmentised "shredded", in bundles

72044990 Waste and scrap of iron or steel, not fragmentised "shredded", not in bundles

72045000 Remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel

74040010 Waste and scrap, of refined copper

74040091 Waste and scrap, of copper-zinc base alloys "brass"

74040099 Waste and scrap, of copper alloys

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as an accredited official statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com). From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.

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