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Steel Food Cans: Environmental Case Study
Steel Food Cans: Environmental Case Study
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) case studies use a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach to measure
the potential greenhouse gas impacts from all stages of manufacture, product use and end-of-life. worldsteel has
developed this paper to demonstrate the reduction of CO2 emissions through the use of high-performance steels.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDY
Footnotes
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8. Steel in the Circular Economy: A life cycle perspective, worldsteel, 2015; Baosteel steel packaging case study, p.7 (http://www.worldsteel.
org/steel-by-topic/life-cycle-assessment.html).
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