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Recycling is an alternative for the management of an end-of-use product. Recycling is the process of material value recovery and is often undertaken when recovery of functional value (e.g., reuse, refurbishing, or remanufacturing) is not technically or economically feasible.
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Recycling includes the activities of returning a product, components, or material to a processor who then transforms these entities into materials that can be used to create new products. The recycling system often includes such steps as product recovery, transportation, shredding, sorting, and materials processing. With recycling, the original product/component structure is very rarely preserved (Fig. 1).
The role of recycling in the product life cycle
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Ortegon, K., Nies, L., Sutherland, J.W. (2016). Recycling. In: The International Academy for Produ, Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6611-4
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