As demand for metals such as steel and lithium soars, recycling could reduce the impact of extraction on the environment
Birmingham — At a metal recycling facility in central England, thousands of tonnes of shredded scrap from cars to construction debris arrive daily to be processed into individual materials and sold.
“You sit there with some pride that you’re making products that have an impact,” said EMR CEO Chris Sheppard. “The need to move the world to net zero and ‘nature positive’ is effectively going to require something like the green industrial revolution.” Meanwhile, production of steel — the world’s most widely used metal — is responsible for between 7% to 9% of the globalemissions that are the primary driver of climate change, according to the World Steel Association.emissions, as well as mining 1.4 tonnes of iron ore, 740kg of coal and 120kg of limestone, according to Bellona, an environmental NGO.
As firms such as EMR seek to grow, a major challenge is the nature of modern materials used in products from smartphones to cars, because of how hard they are to break down and recycle. “Everything we’re trying to do is to minimise the environmental impact,” said Andy Goodyer, GM at EMR Oldbury. Many of these metals are hard to separate from surrounding materials and require new recycling technologies. Often there is a lack of information about how much of each material is used in products and where it is located, experts say.
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