ABSTRACT
Purchasing recycled products and producing recyclable ones are both important parts of landfill diversion efforts, and there are many ways in which the act of recycling can fit into the larger material flow of a business. In this sense, recycling has both a material waste and a garbage component that are equally important. The classic conception of recycling as a closed-loop system where a postconsumer product is remanufactured back into itself at the end of its life cycle is atypical. Waste products are instead more commonly manufactured into different products, especially where a recycled material is incorporated into the manufacture of a more complex new product.
