The most usual way of recycling graphite occurs when synthetic graphite electrodes are lathe turnings are discarded, or the electrode (or other) to the electrode holder. A new electrode replaces the old one, but a sizeable piece of the old electrode remains. This is crushed and sized, and the resulting graphite powder is mostly used to increase the carbon content of molten steel. Graphite's has heat resistant but often not recycling because of their graphite