Use of Concept: secondary material markets
Description
Entities that connect businesses, either generally or for a specific sector, that generate excess (or discarded) materials to other businesses that can recover those materials [31]Examples:
- IT asset disposition (ITAD) companies
- Thrift stores
Owning Diagram: A2: Acquire Materials
ICOM Details:
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Mechanism inherited from Activity
A2 Acquire Materials
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Mechanism on Activity
A21 Extract materials
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