Solid waste management in steel industry is broadly classified in “4 Rs” i.e. reduce, reuse, recycle and restore the materials. Reuse and recycling the entire solid waste generated in the process of steel making is a viable solution in targeting a clean, green and zero waste technology leading to sustainable development of the steel industry. Solid waste management has gained importance in stee...

The late legendary CBS journalist Eric Sevareid once wryly observed, “The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, re nement, and distribution of anxiety.”1 Periodic ruminations over asserted shortages of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals and students are major contributors to that immensely wasteful Am...