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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 as recycled steel. The 14th edition of ‘World Steel Recycling in Figures’ published by the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Ferrous Division followed their lead by replacing all use of…
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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 scrap, so when I say ‘scrap’ that is what I am talking about. But already we have to think about stuff that might be mixed up with 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 all the materials their products were made from, investigating the social and environmental impacts of those materials, and asking how they could specify materials in their supply chain more sustainably.…
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