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"Giving New Life to Old Products"
Author: Damon Carson
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: March/April 2022

For more than 50 years, the world has been enamored with recycling. It seemed like the environmentally friendly solution to waste. But the truth is, recycling means chip it, shred it, grind it, or melt it. To recycle something means to convert it back into a raw material, which requires a lot of energy and is very costly. Actually, the best way to divert something from the landfill is to simply continue to use it. The longer that an item or material can fulfill its original function, the longer it stays out of the dump.


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