Chemistry GCSE
Recycling
What Recycling means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definitions of Recycling
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Reference: AQA
Collecting, sorting and reprocessing waste materials into new products, for example melting used aluminium cans to make new ones.
Recovering the material and making it into a new product, which may have a different use from the original product.
Breaking the material down by crushing, melting or chemically reprocessing it and making it into something new.
The original bottle is destroyed and the material is reformed into new products, rather than being reused.
Topics that use Recycling
- Ways of reducing the use of resources (AQA GCSE)
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- Fossil fuels
- Habitat and landscape destruction
- Impurities
- Landfill
- Limited resources
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