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Office of science technology policy (OSTP)
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Established within the Executive Office of the President, OSTP "serves as a source of scientific, engineering, and technological analysis and judgement for the president with respect to major ...
Packaging efficiency
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A quantification of the efficiency by which competing packaging materials deliver product to market. It is derived by comparing the volume of product delivered per pound of packaging. It is one way ...
Post-consumer plastic
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Any plastic that has entered the stream of commerce, served its intended purpose, and has now been diverted for recycling or export. This includes residential, commercial and institutional plastic. ...
Process engineered fuels (PEF)
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PEF, (some known as pellet fuels), are produced from a mixture of industrial and/or commercial plastic scrap and other industrial and/or commercial scrap materials and/or from plastic and other ...
Pyrolysis
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The thermal decomposition of organic material through the application of heat in the absence of oxygen. (The Recycler's Lexicon: A Glossary of Contemporary Terms and Acronyms, Resource Recycling ...
Reclaimer
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An organisation that further processes recyclable materials. When the reclaimer finishes processing, the material is ready to be remanufactured into a new product. Reclaimers sell post-consumer ...
Recovered material
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Materials and by-products that have been recovered (or diverted) from solid waste. It does not include those materials and by-products generated from and commonly reused within an original ...