ATIEL & UEIL Joint Sustainability Committee


(a) The quantity of waste, including through the re-use of products or extending their lifespan;


(b) The adverse impacts of generated waste on the environment and human health; or (c) The content of harmful substances in materials and products.


• Re-use


Any operation in which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were originally conceived.


• Preparing for Re-use


Checking, cleaning, or repairing recovery operations that prepare products or components of products, which have become waste, so that they can be re-used without any further pre-processing.


• Recycling


Any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials, or substances, whether for the original or other purposes. This includes the reprocessing of organic materials but excludes energy recovery and reprocessing into materials for fuels or backfilling operations.


• Recovery


Any operation whose principal result is waste serving a useful purpose by replacing other materials that would otherwise have been used for a specific function, or waste being prepared to fulfil that function, either within the plant or in the wider economy.


• Disposal


Any operation that is not considered recovery, even if it has as a secondary consequence the reclamation of substances or energy.


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