Recycling and re-use are part of the general waste management strategy of the European Union. The three main principles of this strategy are waste prevention, recycling, re-use and improving of final disposal and monitoring. The goal is to reduce as much as possible final disposal of waste and increase prevention. In order to succeed in that we need to influence customers in choosing products with green packaging and improve manufacturing methods.
Recycling refers to collecting and processing used materials that would otherwise end up as waste in order to produce new products. On the other hand, re-use simply means using a material or product over and over again. A good way to distinguish is to think of recycling as using the core element of a used product to produce raw material to be used in manufacturing new goods. Waste materials like paper, glass, plastic, metals and other rare metals used mainly in electronic appliances, can be recycled in the form of raw materials and used to produce new products.
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