Edi E&C 22

There are figures that defy imagination. China’s steel production is one of them. The People’s Republic produces over one billion tons of crude steel annually. That is the weight of over six million blue whales. But can you imagine so many animals? China’s steel sector is one of the country’s biggest climate polluters. To reduce emissions, more scrap metal is to be recycled, as Ning Wang reports. Scrap metal that used to end up in landfills is now becoming an important raw material.