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Steel, material flows, and globalisation : by-productoptimisation and waste management in today’s steel industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2012

F. MacKillop
F. MacKillop*
Affiliation:
University of Southern Queensland, 4300 Springfield QLD, Australia. e-mail: Fionn.mackillop@usq.edu.au
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Abstract

This paper addresses issues of material flows in a selection of modern steel plants,especially the generation of wastes, from a social sciences perspective. I analyse keyfactors structuring waste management decisions through the case of “problem” wastesarising at a steel company’s plants. I discuss how some materials come to be construed asmore problematical than others from a material and technological point of view, but alsoby taking into account organisational and legislative issues, in order to show that theconstruction of the “waste” category needs to be envisioned as resulting from a matrix ofsocio-material causes.

Keywords

Wastesteel industrymaterial flowssocio-materialproblem waste
Type
Research Article
Information
Metallurgical Research & Technology , Volume 109 , Issue 3 , 2012 , pp. 139 - 147
Copyright
© EDP Sciences 2012

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