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  2. Precycling - Wikipedia

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    Precycling emphasizes "reducing and reusing", while harnessing and questioning the momentum and popularity of the term "recycle." In addition to this strategy, precycling incorporates four supplementary R's: Repair, Recondition, Remanufacture and Refuse. [8] Waste is a resource that can be reused, recycled, recovered, or treated. [9]

  3. Recycling codes - Wikipedia

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    Recycling codes on products. Recycling codes are used to identify the materials out of which the item is made, to facilitate easier recycling process.The presence on an item of a recycling code, a chasing arrows logo, or a resin code, is not an automatic indicator that a material is recyclable; it is an explanation of what the item is made of.

  4. Recycling - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. Converting waste materials into new products This article is about recycling of waste materials. For recycling of waste energy, see Energy recycling. "Recycled" redirects here. For the album, see Recycled (Nektar album). The three chasing arrows of the universal recycling symbol Municipal ...

  5. Closed-loop recycling - Wikipedia

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    Recycling symbol. Closed-loop recycling is the process by which a product or material can be used and then turned into a new product (or converted back to raw material) indefinitely without losing its properties during the recycling process.

  6. Zero waste - Wikipedia

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    It enhances the zero-waste definition by providing guidance for planning and a way to evaluate proposed solutions. All over the world, in some form or another, a pollution prevention hierarchy is incorporated into recycling regulations, solid waste management plans, and resource conservation programs. In Canada, a pollution prevention hierarchy ...

  7. Upcycling - Wikipedia

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    Venice Biennale installation by MaƂgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    He eventually left his post at the rehabilitation facility in 2011. “I was stuck in an abstinence model that didn’t work,” Kalfas said. Administrators of the facility “really need to be confronted with their success rates. In AA, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

  9. Waste sorting - Wikipedia

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    Recycling bins in Singapore Manual waste sorting for recycling Emptying of segregated rubbish containers in Polish medium-sized city Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Waste sorting is the process by which waste is separated into different elements. [1]