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  • Steel and the infinitely washable T-shirt
    Scrap, Steel

    Steel and the infinitely washable T-shirt

    It can seem that every steelmaker on the planet brags that steel is ‘infinitely recyclable’ – but is it? Well, yes and no. In one […]

    14 November 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • 6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, 11%…
    Climate change, GHG, Steel

    6%, 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, 11%…

    The World Steel Association, worldsteel, estimates that the steel sector emits 7% – 9% of global CO2 emissions  But other numbers are available: take your […]

    10 November 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • How Ship Plates Become Millions of Nails
    Scrap, Steel

    How Ship Plates Become Millions of Nails

    Awesome, terrifying, and exactly what it says on the tin. Watch as recovered ship plates are cut, melted, extruded and stamped to become millions of […]

    3 November 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Calculating the recycling rate – the devil in the detail
    Scrap, Steel

    Calculating the recycling rate – the devil in the detail

    The recycling rate is the proportion of a material that is recovered and recycled. If 90% of steel cans are recovered and recycled after they […]

    1 November 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Recycled content – giving it 110%
    Scrap, Steel

    Recycled content – giving it 110%

    Footballers are famous for “giving it 110%”. But can steel have 110% recycled content? Recycled content is the proportion of recycled material in a new […]

    1 November 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Any old iron?
    Scrap, Steel

    Any old iron?

    What do Peter Sellers and Kermit the Frog tell us about the recovery and recycling of end-of-life ferrous scrap? Well, they’ve both recorded versions of […]

    31 October 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Recycling rate vs recycled content
    Scrap, Steel

    Recycling rate vs recycled content

    The average recycled content of steel today is around 31% . But steel’s recycling rate is estimated at 85%. What’s the difference? And which is […]

    30 October 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • What’s the difference between home and internal scrap?
    Scrap, Steel

    What’s the difference between home and internal scrap?

    Pick any two reports on ferrous scrap, and the chances are that they will use three different words to describe ‘home’ and ‘internal’ scrap. If […]

    29 October 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Recovered, unrecovered or unrecoverable?  The fate of end-of-life steel
    Scrap, Steel

    Recovered, unrecovered or unrecoverable? The fate of end-of-life steel

    Is the steel in the Titanic scrap? Or available for scrap? Is it unrecovered, or unrecoverable? We know roughly what end-of-life scrap is. It’s defined […]

    27 October 2024

    mwenbansmith

  • Can scrap save the planet?
    Scrap, Steel

    Can scrap save the planet?

    If all the steel the world uses were made from recycled scrap, it would instantly reduce the world’s industrial carbon emissions by about 8%. That […]

    25 October 2024

    mwenbansmith

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