Comments on: pre-consumer vs post-consumer recycled content

By: Eltodesukane

Eltodesukane — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:50:00 +0000

Another typical bus shelter with the walls (those that are not missing!) not reaching the floor nor the roof. Not good in cold wintry weather. Bad design.

By: Porgynbess

Porgynbess — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:42:00 +0000

There are some benefits for the use of pre-consumer material. Basically, they’re scrap from a manufacturing process that would either be disposed or melted to original state for reprocessing. Indeed, that it’s original content is from virgin materials. However, re-purposing of scrap (identified as pre-consumer recycled material) from another process and into another often decreases the req’d resources or energy to produce the target end product. -milesursogood

By: recycled resins: sometimes they’re just better | Product Design Notebook

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:34:16 +0000

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