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Product recycling rate

Strategic perspective

Corporate social responsibility perspective

Key performance question this indicator helps to answer

To what extent are we minimising the environmental impact of the products we produce or sell?

Why is this indicator important?

With the previous KPIs we looked at waste reduction and waste recycling, which are concerned with minimising the environmental impact of production. However, recycling is also desirable for the products a company produces or sells.

Once products have come to the end of their life, the aim should be to recycle most if not all of them. There is now agreement among governments and business associations that product recycling is the responsibility of manufacturers. However, ...

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