Description

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 [1]. Processing of waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes, excluding energy recovery [2]. Sources: [1] GEMET/LANDY [2] International Organization for Standardization, “Plastics –Vocabulary”, document ISO:472:2013, s.2.1706.* *This term and definition is included in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the international negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, under the category 'Terms not used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that may be related to those used in the resolution and that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.