Closed Loop Recycling
green | August 5th, 2009 - 12:13 PM
Make recycling a Closed Loop.
Recycling doesn’t end at the recycling bin. Materials put out for recycling are not truly recycled until they are reprocessed into new products and purchased by you.
Production system in which the waste or byproduct of one process or product is used in making another product. For example, recycling waste newspaper to make paper-board or other types of paper.
A business, school or university is not truly recycling unless it buys recycled products. Recycled paper uses up to 90% less water and half the energy required to make paper from virgin timber.
Closed Loop occurs when recyclable packaging item is used, discarded, captured and recycled into a new product. Companies provide the purpose built recyclable packaging and recycling solutions that enable a Closed Loop to occur and diverting unnecessary waste from landfill.
Materials such as glass, aluminium, plastic and paper can go into a Closed Loop recycling system. Where required, some companies can also recycle organic or food waste but this goes into its own separate bin.
We can now ‘Close the Loop’ by having much more of the once land fill bound plastic recycled and made into brand new products.
Recyclable material can be tracked from the moment it is sold into the recycling market to the purchase and manufacturing of a new product. The materials from the closed-loop program should then be handled as much as possible in an environmentally conscious way that does not negatively affect the environment.
With great success – they often track the end-use of all material that is sold for recycling.
http://www.planetearthrecycling.com/closed-loop-recycling.html
