The industrial development in the world has generated all these years long a pollution that reached critical thresholds for our planet.
In front of this peril and owing to the world awareness that there will be no lasting progress without environment preservation, the political leaders have admitted the necessity of struggling against pollution in all its forms.

In this frame, many international conventions have appeared but besides these conventions and protocols, many countries have progressively established their own rules in terms of environment protection.
We note then that on both international and national levels, the major worry of protecting the environment is growing more and more and the regulations are more and more strict.
Hence, in many countries and regional groups, purification and environment protection policies, besides collection and stocking, recommend the scrap recycling.
Within this international dynamics, Tunisia has been among the first countries that have reacted in front of that problem. The creation of SOTULUB in 1979 is the best illustration for that purpose.

Since then, the constant worry of the public powers of handing down a better environment to future generations has been concretized by establishing the following institutions:

	National Agency for Environment Protection (NAEP) (created in 1988)
	National Agency of Management of Waste Products(NAMWP) (created in August 2005)
	Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Hydraulic Resources and the issue of the law dated 10/06/1996 relevant to scrap management in Tunisia as it was modified by the law n°2001-14 dated January 30th 2001 and the decree n°2002-623 dated April 1st 2002 related to the conditions and modalities of taking back lubricating oils and oil filters and managing them.