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: A53: Treat end-of-life products

ICOM Details:

  • Tunneled Concept in Diagram.
  • Mechanism on Activity A531 Reuse .
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