The Toxic Truth About Steel

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The Toxic Truth About Steel exposes the dark side of the steel industry. This episode investigates the environmental and human cost of steel production and asks whether it's time for a change.

Steel is the metal that makes the modern world tick. Imagine a life without it. No cars, Homes, Gadgets, Electricity. But this wonder material that our lives are built around carries a dirty secret that nobody's talking about. The steel industry is responsible for a jaw-dropping 8% of the world's greenhouse gas pollution. And, bizarrely, we're actually going to need a lot more of it to clean up our economies.