(of a consumer item) having been discarded for disposal or recovery
b.
having been recycled
Examples of 'post-consumer' in a sentence
post-consumer
In addition, options for post-consumer plastics are considered.
Riccardo Scalenghe 2018, 'Resource or waste? A perspective of plastics degradation in soil with a focus on end-of-lifeoptions', Heliyonhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844018301336. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Discarded, post-consumer high quality materials are more and more attractive for recycling.
Agnes F. Martins, João Carlos M. Suarez, Eloisa B. Mano 1999, 'Produtos poliolefínicos reciclados com desempenho superior aos materiais virgens correspondentesRecycled polyolefin products with higher performance than the corresponding virginmaterials', Polímeroshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-14281999000400005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Therefore, the rheological properties allow the prediction of the processing behavior of post-consumer recycled materials.
Sandra A. Cruz, Marcelo Farah, Maria Zanin, Rosario E. S. Bretas 2008, 'Avaliação das propriedades reológicas de blendas de PEAD virgem/PEAD reciclado Evaluationof rheological properties of virgin HDPE/recycled HDPE blends', Polímeroshttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-14282008000200012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In the present investigation, post-consumer carpet has been recycled in the form of structural composites for tooling applications.
Kunal Mishra, Sarat Das, Ranji Vaidyanathan 2019, 'The Use of Recycled Carpet in Low-Cost Composite Tooling Materials', Recyclinghttp://www.mdpi.com/2313-4321/4/1/12. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Some of the identified contaminants were estimated in the post-consumer material at concentrations higher than 220 ng.g-1.
Samanta Fabris, Maria Teresa de Alvarenga Freire, Roger Wagner, Felix Guillermo Reyes 2010, 'A method to determine volatile contaminants in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packagesby HDC-GC-FID and its application to post-consumer materials', Food Science and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612010000400033&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)