Cleaning Up Steel

The Engine
19 min readDec 3, 2019

And Other Materials Essential To Humanity

By Elizabeth Thomson for The Engine
Illustrations by
Julie Carles

The cars we drive, the buildings we live in, the processing and storage of the food we consume — these and much more are dependent on steel. The material is essential to humanity.

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