RE: Why Do We Make More Steel When We Can Recycle Scrap? - Creating Awareness

Magnetic steel and iron get recycled because one can easily pull it from the waste stream with a magnet. I suspect that non-magnetic steel faces the same problem as other metals.

Steel items tend to last longer than plastic. I cook every day with a cast iron skillet that was formed in the 1940s. I suspect that it could be used for several centuries.

In most cases the iron in structures will last as long as the structure.

Sadly, rebar is often problematic. Structures fail when the rebar used to reinforce the structure gets exposed to the elements.

!WINE

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