recycling: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	materials salvage • reprocessing

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Five labeled recycling bins in a row for picnic rubbish, plastic bottles, aluminum cans, and glass, set on a concrete pad with greenery in the background.

Two women wearing green shirts and yellow gloves sort plastic bottles and containers into a garbage bag outdoors, participating in a recycling or cleanup activity.

How plastic is recycled into insulation.

How are old bottles recycled into new ones?

An open butter container sits on a wooden surface.

How enzymes in wax moth larvae could lead to new recycling biotechnologies

Turning cities into raw material depots for recycling

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internal recycling external recycling secondary refining water purification thermal-heat recovery scrap metal solid-waste management waste product extended producer responsibility waste disposal materials testing ecological restoration materials processing materials handling allocation of resources materials science wood plastic abrasive glass

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