Turning Plastic Bags into Steel
Australia’s Herald Sun features an article on the company OneSteel’s efforts to use plastic bags to provide energy for producing steel.
The plastic bags will replace materials like coal, which contains carbon used in the process of creating steel in a furnace. Plastic bags are primarily made of polyethylene, which also contains carbon.
Plastic bags will be able to replace up to 30 percent of the carbon-generating materials currently used to produce steel. The world produces about 1.1 billion tonnes of steel globally.
