Waste Exchange

• It is an alternative to waste reduction where there exist a change of function from one company waste to become a resource for another company.

• This promotes industrial cooperation between these two companies concern, as a ‘match making’ agent in promoting sharing of material. Besides that, it is economical in decreasing the cost for resources for the secondary company concern.

• Waste exchange can range from hazardous and non hazardous, as the waste would not be left accumulated in the environment but rather be used and converted to another useful

• There are a number of regional waste exchange that deals with small geographic range or of specific waste. These can be supported by grants from governments and and cost sharing between companies.

Recycling

• Recycling is a process of returning waste of materials to a previous stage of a cyclic process in order to convert waste into a reusable material

• There are 3 steps in a recycling process:

  • collection and processing – collection of recyclable materials from communities. These materials are sent to facilities to be separated according to its types. The range of recyclables depends on its usefulness and marketability, it can be sold again as a consumer product or had to go for manufacturing.

  • manufacturing – recyclable materials that fall under this process include newspapers and paper towels; aluminum, plastic, and glass soft drink containers; steel cans; and plastic laundry detergent bottles. These materials can be used as innovative components in the designs of recovered glass in roadway asphalt (glassphalt) or recovered plastic in carpeting, park benches, and pedestrian bridges.

  • purchasing recycled products – this is the end of the cycle. The end product can be sold to any businesses and governments to be used, as consumer demand on environment friendly goods increase.