Turning waste from steel industry into a valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry

The RESLAG project is aligned with the challenges
outlined in the call WASTE-1-2014: Moving towards
a circular economy through industrial symbiosis of
the European Horizon 2020 programme. In 2010,
the European steel industry generated, as waste, about
21.8 Mt of steel slag. The 76 % of the slag was recycled in
applications such as aggregates for construction or road
materials, but these sectors were unable to absorb the total
amount of produced slag. The remaining 24 % was landfilled
(2.9 Mt) or self-stored (2.3 Mt).