Giving steel a second life. Scrap recycling — an important environmental function of NLMK Group
NLMK Group plays an important environmental role in Russia by collecting and recycling waste and using steelmaking by-products. NLMK Russia Long companies make products from recycled material – ferrous scrap collected by NLMK-EcoTECH, Russia’s largest and most technically advanced scrap recycling company.
Experts estimate that about 23 million tonnes of ferrous scrap is collected in Russia each year. Steel is an almost 100% recyclable material that can be reused time and again. If it wasn’t for this important property, we would have huge piles of steel accumulated every year.
Recycling helps make the world cleaner – with no piles of scrap metal – and reduce the consumption of natural resources and energy. One tonne of ferrous scrap helps save over 1.5 tonnes of iron ore, sinter and pellets, as well as about 100 cubic metres of natural gas.