Chemistry GCSE
Waste minimisation and resource efficiency
What Waste minimisation and resource efficiency means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Waste minimisation and resource efficiency
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A process that converts most of its starting materials into the desired product uses resources more efficiently and produces less waste.
Topics that use Waste minimisation and resource efficiency
- Atom economy (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Addition reactions
- Atom economy
- Balanced equations
- Concentration
- Concentration and volume
- Economic factors in industrial chemistry
- Evaluating competing reaction pathways
- Mass and volume relationships
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