In Bangladesh there's a huge appetite for steel because the country lacks meaningful iron deposits. That's a big reason the have a huge ship dismantling indust

In Bangladesh there's a huge appetite for steel because the country lacks meaningful iron deposits. That's a big reason the have a huge ship dismantling industry, and I presume some way to process the steel. But Bangladesh has a population of ~170 million, and Tonga's population is around ~110 thousand. I wonder what the minimum viable population is for supporting scrap metal recycling. How ship-breaking helped shape the steel industry -- https://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/how-ship-breaking-helped-shape-steel-industry-679402 https://www.tbsnews.net/supplement/how-ship-breaking-helped-...