Steel Scrap Recycling – A Sustainable Way of Making Steel

 

Carefully managing our limited natural resources is essential in a world where the population is projected to peak at multiplying speed in the coming years. For maximum resource efficiency, we must shift away from the antiquated "take, make, consume, and dispose" approach and toward a circular economy paradigm. Products must be made to be reusable and re-manufacturable in order to significantly cut down on energy and natural resource expenditures.

One of the most widely used metals in the world, steel is used to construct anything from the world's highest skyscrapers to standard kitchen items. Through the Industrial Age, steel propelled technical development, and it still does so today. While iron ore continues to be the main source of steel production, used or recycled steel in the form of scrap is the secondary raw material for the steel industry.

The true economic benefit of recycling steel, however, comes from the significant primary production expenses that are avoided. By recycling steel, you can skip the initial step of making steel, which involves turning iron ore into iron in a blast furnace. The scrap steel can be directly integrated into the second stage in place of the blast furnace, saving all the energy that would otherwise be used there.

Ministry of Steel has issued the Steel Scrap Recycling Policy. The policy aims to achieve the following objectives –

  • To promote a circular economy in the steel sector.
  • To promote the formal and scientific collection, dismantling, and processing activities for end-of-life products that are sources of recyclable (ferrous, non-ferrous, and other non-metallic) scraps which will lead to resource conservation and energy savings and setting up of an environmentally sound management system for handling ferrous scrap.
  • Processing and recycling of products in an organized, safe, and environment-friendly manner.
  • To create a mechanism for treating waste streams and residues produced from dismantling and shredding facilities in compliance with Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management & Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 issued by MoEF & CC.
  • To promote 6Rs principles of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Redesign and Remanufacture through scientific handling, processing, and disposal of all types of recyclable scraps including non-ferrous scraps, through an authorized center/facility.

Rajuri Steel supports this policy and envisions a sustainable future.

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