Steel scrap usage rose 10.1% in 2018 as China cut emissions

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Steel scrap usage rose 10.1% to 469.3 million mt last year in countries that represent 81% of global steel production, as nations including China strive to reduce carbon emissions, Rolf Willeke, ferrous division statistical adviser to International Recycling Bureau BIR said Tuesday last. Crude steel production rose 4.5% to 1.469 billion mt in the same countries in 2018, Willeke also said at a bureau congress in Singapore.