RE:Algoma Steel does not recycle scrap metalCan you clarify this issue please ??
February 4, 2019 Algoma Steel Inc. Recycle Content and LEED Sustainability, with respect to the Canadian Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ®) principle for construction products, is supported by the Algoma Steel Inc. manufacturing process and is consistent with our corporate environmental policy. Algoma Steel is an integrated steel producer based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Revenues are derived primarily from the manufacture and sale of hot and cold rolled steel products, including hot and cold rolled sheet and plate. Consistent with the requirements which support achieving the LEED MR5 category, Algoma Steel can offer the following information: Our products are currently made using the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) process. The average recycle content of our steel ranges from 21 to 25%, typically made up of 5 to 10% post consumer and 90 to 95% post industrial scrap. Algoma Steel recycles over 500,000 metric tonnes of steel scrap annually, reducing its overall carbon foot-print by attaining in the range of 75-80% self-efficiency by supplying its own post industrial scrap from internal recovery practices. 100% of our external scrap steel requirement is sourced from Canada and the United States. Of that, in 2018, 20% was U.S. sourced material; shipped to our manufacturing facility in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario by lake vessel from the ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. 47% was Canadian-sourced from southern Ontario, and shipped to our manufacturing facility in Sault Ste. Marie from Hamilton and Cambridge, Ontario; 33% was Canadian-sourced from northern Ontario. Overall 36% was shipped by rail, 18% by lake vessel and 46% by truck