3R’s (waste management)
3R’s (waste management) is a term used to describe waste management; reduce, reuse and recycle.
Closed-loop system
Closed-loop system
Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Life cycle assessment or LCA – refers to a process in industrial ecology by which the products, processes, and facilities used to manufacture specific products are each examined for their environmental impacts — a balance sheet prepared for each product that considers: the use of materials.
Material recovery
Material recovery is the extraction of materials from the waste stream for reuse or recycling. Examples include source separation, front-end recovery, in-plant recycling, post-combustion recovery, leaf composting, and so on.
Precycling
Precycling is source reduction and reuse. In most waste management planning, the hierarchy is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Reduction and reuse are the first lines of defence against increasing waste volume.
Regenerative farming
Regenerative agriculture is an approach to food and farming systems, whereof, the keywords are conservation and rehabilitation. Including issues such as increased biodiversity and the improved water cycle.
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