#Steel

Recycled steel is the crystalline hypocrisy of steel scraps reborn under the banner of environmental protection to serve again as the skeleton of new products. It sounds sustainable, but in reality it’s little more than an excuse blending cost-cutting and guilt-washing. Quality guarantees remain hazy, and stress tests sometimes elicit screams akin to the planet’s own agony. Yet nobody asks if it’s truly safe. It is a single sheet of metal that burnishes the contradictions of modern civilization.