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“You can only recycle steel in an EAF” – Really?
If you read the literature of the European Recycling Industries Confederation (EuRIC) you might get the impression that recycling steel is only possible using electric […]
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A ‘sliding scale’ for steel and glass?
Glass and steel are similar in many ways. They’re both made from raw materials originally mined from the earth: silica sand, trona, limestone and dolomite […]
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Global Recycling Day: the long view
When it comes to recycling, it is worth taking the long view. For the first few thousand years iron and steel recycling meant reworking rather […]
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All you need to know about steel, scrap and greenhouse gas emissions in just 2 graphs: graph#2
Last week’s graph (see graph#1) started to explore the relationship between crude steel production, scrap generation and the residual demand for iron extracted directly from […]
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All you need to know about steel, scrap and greenhouse gas emissions in just 2 graphs: graph#1
Just two graphs tell you everything you need to know about steel, scrap and greenhouse gas emissions. This is the first. Along the bottom, left […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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