Circularity

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Circularity

What is the principle of circularity? Circularity is the economic principle of sharing, repairing, refurbishing, recycling, remanufacturing and reusing as much as possible to minimise waste and the extraction & creation of virgin materials

  • Part of any material that can be recycled (or re-used), the recyclability of a material

Recycled vs Virgin materials

Recycled materials informs about the part of any material that is made from recycled materials.

The DataPoints are

  • RecycledMaterialsUsedWeight (UnitDomain: Weight)
  • RecycledMaterialsUsedPercentage (Unit: %)

Recyclability

Materials are recyclable if it can be collected, sorted, reprocessed, and ultimately reused in manufacturing or making another item.

This is about the part of a material that can be recycled.

DataPoints

  • RecyclableMaterialsWeight (UnitDomain: Weight)
  • RecyclebaleMaterialsPercentage (Unit: %)
  • ReclycableDegratePercentage (Unit: %)

Actual Recycled

While many materials can be (partly) recylced, not everything actually gets recycled.

DataPoints

  • RecycledMaterialsActualWeight (UnitDomain: Weight)


Related topics

  • Waste
    • Landfill (waste dump)
    • Incineration: A waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials
      • Waste-to-energy?
  • Re-use
    • Re-wear (fastion/clothing)

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