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🛒Scrap dealers say the six-month ban on scrap metal trade will cripple their businesses. Catch up on what happened this week here: scrapmetal scrapmetaltheft

“I don’t think I will be able to continue working after this. They are putting a burden on us and I don’t know how they expect us to survive. The findings also take advantage of the situation because they know we don’t have any other place to sell,” said one of the scrap dealers, who asked not to be named.

“It is practically impossible to police all of this infrastructure all of the time. The measures approved by Cabinet therefore seeks to reduce the demand for scrap metal from the lucrative global market, while simultaneously disrupting criminals’ transport and logistics networks,” he said. In phase two, the government will introduce measures requiring buyers and sellers of scrap metal to show that they are tax compliant and have all the necessary environmental permits in place before being issued with buyers’ or sellers’ licences.These companies will also have to show where the scrap metal originated from and to whom it was sold.

 

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