Steel, material flows, and globalisation: by-product optimisation and waste management in today's steel industry
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Article Title | Steel, material flows, and globalisation: by-product optimisation and waste management in today's steel industry |
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ERA Journal ID | 4831 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | MacKillop, F. |
Journal Title | Metallurgical Research and Technology |
Revue de Metallurgie | |
Journal Citation | 109 (3), pp. 139-147 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0035-1563 |
1156-3141 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1051/metal/2012013 |
Web Address (URL) | http://journals.cambridge.org/10.1051/metal/2012013 |
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 key factors structuring waste management decisions through the case of 'problem' wastes arising at a steel company’s plants. I discuss how some materials come to be construed as more problematical than others from a material and technological point of view, but also by taking into account organisational and legislative issues, in order to show that the construction of the 'waste' category needs to be envisioned as resulting from a matrix of socio-material causes. |
Keywords | waste; steel industry; material flows; modern steel plants; socio-material; problem waste |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 401408. Manufacturing processes and technologies (excl. textiles) |
401102. Environmentally sustainable engineering | |
401407. Manufacturing management | |
Public Notes | Accepted version deposited in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This paper originally delivered at the SAM2 Conference in Nantes, France, in April 2008 |
Byline Affiliations | Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q14w9/steel-material-flows-and-globalisation-by-product-optimisation-and-waste-management-in-today-s-steel-industry
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