Diseñadora Indsutrial

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Feasibility of technology and operational necessities
3. Status of the technology and its future market potential
4. How the technology could contribute to socio-economic development and environmental protection
5. Climate
6. Financial requirements and costs
7. Clean Development Mechanism market status
8. References
Recyclingis a process which reconsiders the current life cycle of creating products and materials and associated process and final waste. Specifically, paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new products. Recycling provides several socio-economic development benefits as well as environmental benefits.
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According to the European Commission (19November, 2008) “waste means any substance or object which the holder discards or intends or is required to discard.” Recycling materials and products – that are considered waste - is an ancient practice which shows that in times of resource scarcity (i.e. shortage of virgin materials) societies attach more economic and societal value to their own waste. This implies that throughout time the definitionof waste can change as well. Generally speaking longer use or re-use of materials and products this is often mainly to cover a society’s needs. To put it differently, recycling is a process which reconsiders the current life cycle of creating products and materials and associated process and final waste. Ideally, products and materials should be designed, produced, used and disposed in such a waythat they can be completely re-used and/or recycled effectively and efficiently. There are many waste types, such as basic materials (i.e. glass, paper, steel, aluminum, construction minerals and plastic but also water), hazardous and chemical wastes, but also end-of-use waste products (i.e. e-waste, furniture, cars and textiles) that can be re-used or recycled.
A hierarchy of waste managementoptions exists, giving preference to certain measures and pplacing other measures as a last-resort fall back option. The European Union maintains a hierarchy of waste management in which it illustrated the preferences over waste prevention, re-use, recycling, recovery of energy and the use of landfills to dispose of wastes from which no further value can be recovered (Smith et al., 2001). Thishierarchy is illustrated in Figure 1. The hierarchy positions waste prevention at the top of measures of waste management. After all, preventing the waste all together is an effective measure waste management. After waste prevention, the European Union outlines that re-use of the product in its current form is the preffered measure. This is based on the notion that minimum waste management is requiredif the product can be directly re-used without undergoing any processes (only collecting of the product and transporting it back to the producer). After that, recycling is seen as an important waste management measure. Recycling allows for efficient use of waste, but does require an extensive waste management process to convert the product back into use-able components for other products. Thelower two waste management measures do not require an extensive waste management process, primarily limited to collection and separation of the waste, but do result in negative environmental consequences.

Figure 1: Hierarchy of waste management as advised by the European Union (click image to enlarge)
More specifically, the process of paper recycling is the recovery of waste paper products andreprocessing these into new products. For example, paper waste products can be recycled into lower-quality bathroom paper. With recycling, it is not possible to deliver a same quality product as the original waste paper product. In other words, quality losses are inevitably incurred within the recycling process. In the case of paper products, this primarily means that fiber strength and length are...