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What do you know about the steel Toyota uses in the US plants?
Metallurgy is just a specialized kind of chemistry. ALL our metals are recyclable, and are made out of elements like iron (Fe), Magnesium (Mg), ... This list goes on. Pretty much everything that is metal is yellow on this chart. Or orange.
What determines whether metal gets turned into something useful like structural steel is the economics of the starting materials. Slag tends to be discarded because it costs too much to recover the useful metal out, or the contaminates are just too hard to separate.
At over $90 per blade, Silky can afford to use the very best metal they can find.
I will assure you no steel plant that I have ever seen discards slag. That would be like saying coal burning power plants discard cinders and rock quarries discard fines.
If the plants here can find a value they do.
Here is an excellent example................
Here is an excellent example................
Dana Corp supplies much of their truck frames.
Cleveland Cliffs or US Steel supply alot of their high quality a steels.
Coal plants often have their own landfills to bury bottom ash. The one I worked at did.
Not much other than the Toyota Tundra and all Subaru vehicles was on the buy list when I worked for Cleveland Cliffs.
Well then! I guess you need to look around a little more. Here's some fields filled with metal slag:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eRFA1thsHiMt3Zbp6https://maps.app.goo.gl/RZNYTmuggtYW2WuW9https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wf7fZfWMWnP3BesJ8
All from Sheffield Steel. Ever hear of them?
Most of this area is also slag-field, but they built other metal plants on top of it:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Qq9nhbkWeZLmtxKL8
I don't know how deep they were filled up from the old metal plant, but they are as high as the nearby levies.
Yeah, right.
Just look for some videos. Use any search engine, seek out "metal slag being dumped".
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Define what you mean by "ash" I do not want to disagree with you if we are not talking about the same thing.
Bill! You made a statement. YOU should be backing it up.
Besides, Coal burning facilities are well known for their ash deposits.
https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-basics
Geez! It took me a whole 20 seconds to get an answer.
"Coal ash is one of the largest types of industrial waste generated in the United States. According to the American Coal Ash Association's Coal Combustion Product Production & Use Survey Report, nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in 2014."
Besides, Coal burning facilities are well known for their ash deposits.
https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-basics
Geez! It took me a whole 20 seconds to get an answer.
"Coal ash is one of the largest types of industrial waste generated in the United States. According to the American Coal Ash Association's Coal Combustion Product Production & Use Survey Report, nearly 130 million tons of coal ash was generated in 2014."
No! You may argue. Coal ash isn't a waste to be disposed of. It's good stuff, says Bill.
https://www.epa.gov/tn/epa-response-kingston-tva-coal-ash-spillhttps://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=9065
https://www.epa.gov/tn/epa-response-kingston-tva-coal-ash-spillhttps://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=9065
Great...................now go do the research to find out what happens next.
Also as usual you failed to read what I wrote when I clearly said......................
Have you personally seen a steel plant plant discarding slag or just a online video? We have plants here and I have spent many hours growing up spreading slag. In the morning I can go over and pick up a handful of slag we have had for 35 plus years.
Please directly quote what statement you would like me to back up.
Well there are a lot more Toyota facilities than those and you might be surprised at where they source steel from.
Do you really think I didn't read your inane statement with your escape clause built in? I guess you didn't read very well when I answered this::
With this:
Nah. I'm tired of answering dumb questions.
