Examples of Postconsumer waste in a sentence
Postconsumer waste or postindustrial waste includes only glass, paper, or plastic that have been, or would have been, disposed of as solid waste.
Definitions Post-consumer waste recycled content (PCW): is the amount of material in a product that has completed its intended use as a consumer item (such as a sheet of copy paper or a plastic bottle), has been diverted from the waste stream by having been collected in a residential or commercial recycling program, and has been incorporated into a new product.
Post-consumer waste is defined as “a PVC product (including additives, and any product bound into the matrix such as fibres, fabrics, etc.) which has left its last production site, and which the holder discards, intends to discard or is required to discard”.
Post-consumer waste materials are defined as only those materials that come from products generated by a consumer that have served their intended end-uses and have been separated or diverted from solid waste for the purpose of collection, recycling and disposition.
Post-consumer waste means a finished material that would normally be disposed of as solid waste, having completed its life cycle as a consumer item, but does not mean manufacturing waste.