Steel

  • What’s the difference between home and internal scrap?

    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 […]

  • Recovered, unrecovered or unrecoverable?  The fate of end-of-life steel

    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 […]

  • Can scrap save the planet?

    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 […]

  • No such thing as scrap? Really?

    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 […]

  • A chain of custody standard for steel

    A chain of custody standard for steel

    A chain of custody standard is needed to link ResponsibleSteel certified steel producers with steel users. An effective standard has to be practical for steelmakers, […]

  • ResponsibleSteel

    ResponsibleSteel

    ResponsibleSteel is a global, not-for-profit organisation created to maximise steel?s contribution to a sustainable world. Working collaboratively with its members, it has developed the world’s […]

  • What is ‘scrap’?

    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 […]

  • Iron, steel and croissants

    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 […]