Did you know that Recycling does its part to promote sustainable re-use of steel, not just during National Recycling Week, but every week?

Recycling provides a significant contribution to the raw material requirements of the steel industry and helps keep waste out of landfill. It ensures the safe and effective environmental management of metal recycling by handling, collecting, processing and distributing ferrous and non-ferrous metals to be recycled. Recycling’s sites all around Australia are responsible for processing approximately 1.4 million tonnes of ferrous and non-ferrous metal for recycling every year. Recycling plays a key role in the circular economy, which promotes the use of resources such as steel for as long as possible and the subsequent recovery and re-use of those resources to extract their full value. It also recognises that dematerialisation (the use of less steel to achieve the same outcome) is a key part of making our built environment more sustainable.