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  • Recycling Roundtable Senate Resolution

    8/4/2011 - Washington, D.C. –The Recycling Roundtable, an advocacy group comprised of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI), the Steel Recycling Institute (SRI), the ...

  • Recycling Steel Cans Reduces Green House Gas Emissions, according to EPA Report

    5/24/2011 - The EPA Climate Forum Materials Management Report states recycling steel cans helps to reduce CO2 emissions. Their 30 page report, released this month was a welcoming and ...

  • 2009 Steel Recycling Rates

    3/29/2011 - The Steel Recycling Institute annually calculates the steel recycling rates for common steel products. This document charts the rates for these products for the years they have ...

At A Glance

Scrap has become the steel industry's single largest source of raw material because it is economically advantageous to recycle old steel into new steel. In light of this, steelmaking furnaces have been designed to consume steel scrap.