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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 […]
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