3R’s (waste management)
3R’s is a term used to describe waste management model. The 3R model: reduce-reuse-recycle, not to be mixed up with other terms using the 3Rs term. Read more..
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8R´s Waste Hierarchy
8R´s 8R´s is a term that describes the extended version of the 3R´s represents reduce – reuse -recycle. There is more to it! 8R´s is philosophically “do I need it in the first place” and adds the philosophical question on...
Closed loop system
Closed loop system (earth) Ecologists describe a closed-loop system as one that does not exchange matter with the outside world. Although the only truly closed-loop system may be the Earth itself, some industrial subsystems can approach closed loops, and the concept...
Environmental design
Environmental design is a new approach in planning consumer products and industrial processes that are ecologically sustainable and intelligent, and healthy both the environment and humans. Read more..
Material recovery
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.
