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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]