Steelmaking furnaces have been designed to devour steel scrap. Because of it is economically beneficially to recycle old steel into new steel, making the steel industry's single largest source of raw material.

The steel industry's prodigious history of recycling made a wide variety of collection programs exist to recycle steel products. As in the 50 years ago steel produced has been recycled through the steelmaking process in about 50%.

The Steel recycling infrastructure grown and ripened over the years to meet the steel industry's demand for steel scrap. Because of well-established network of more than 2,000 ferrous scrap processors and more than 70 end market. And today steel recycling efforts supersede those of the past.