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Term

recycling

Term

(1) A resource recovery method involving the collection and treatment of a waste product for use as raw material in the manufacture of the same or a similar product. (2) the EU waste strategy distinguishes between: reuse meant as a material reuse without any structural changes in materials; recycling meant as a material recycling, only, and with a reference to structural changes in products; and recovery meant as an energy recovery only.

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EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

1) ETC/CDS. General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus (GEMET 2000). 2) European Statistical Laboratory.

Publication year

2000

Definition source URL

http://esl.jrc.it/envind/sip/wm/Sip_wm05.htm,Heading46

Organisation

1) ETC/CDS

Organisation full name

Subjects

WASTE

Long definition

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