TY - JFULL AU - Sushovan Sarkar and Debabrata Mazumder PY - 2015/4/ TI - Solid Waste Management in Steel Industry - Challenges and Opportunities T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 977 EP - 981 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10001005 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 99, 2015 N2 - 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 steel industry in view of its uncertainty, volatility and speculation due to world competitive standards, rising input costs, scarcity of raw materials and solid waste generated like in other sectors. The challenges that the steel Industry faces today are the requirement of a sustainable development by meeting the needs of our present generation without compromising the ability of future generations. Technologies are developed not only for gainful utilization of solid wastes in manufacture of conventional products but also for conversion of same in to completely new products. ER -