Need a sanity check here...
For identifying the steel extraction location, my colleagues and I swear that it was acceptable to use the mill as the point of extraction, manufacturing, and purchase. Naturally, we can find no evidence of this in any official capacity.
Any consensus?
Deborah Lucking
Director of SustainabilityFentress Architects
LEEDuser Expert
244 thumbs up
September 24, 2020 - 10:25 pm
This reasoning has worked for us (under v2009, and I don't see why it should not now) - that the recycling collection points are close enough to the mill such that at least the recycled percentage is extracted/manufactured/purchased from the mill location. I believe at least one of the big manufacturers have literature that say this (Nucor or Clark Dietrich...)
If you are extracting raw ore - that'll be a tough sell unless the mines are really close to the mill.
Good luck!
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
447 thumbs up
September 24, 2020 - 11:31 pm
Yes, good point for the recycling vs raw aspect. Thanks!
Tommy Linstroth
CEOGreen Badger
LEEDuser Expert
118 thumbs up
September 25, 2020 - 9:41 am
From my experience, the mill has to state where they get scrap from - Nucor always had a note on their reports that all scrap was collected from w/in 500 miles of the mill. That was then the extraction source - where did the scrap originate. That would now need to be w/in 100 miles, which is pretty tight radius.
Shannon Oletic
5 thumbs up
September 25, 2020 - 1:52 pm
Not to mention that the Reference Guide states that "all extraction, manufacture, and purchase (including distribution) of the product and its materials must occur within that radius", so unless the steel contains 100% recycled content the raw extraction locations would also need to fall within the radius.