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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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No such thing as scrap? Really?
In 2023 the American Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (AISR) decreed that there’s no longer such a thing as scrap. Henceforth it would be known […]
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What is ‘scrap’?
Surely everyone knows what scrap is? Well, kind of. But we’re going to need to get technical… I want to focus on iron and steel […]
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Iron, steel and croissants
Fairly early in the development of ResponsibleSteel I was contacted by a multinational clothing company which was reviewing its sustainability strategy. They were looking at […]
