Used or Reused Material

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-029394",
  "term": "Used or Reused Material",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Is “used or reused” if it is either:(i) Employed as an ingredient (including use as an intermediate) in an industrial process to make a product (for example, distillation bottoms from one process used as feedstock in another process). However, a material will not satisfy this condition if distinct components of the material are recovered as separate end products (as when metals are recovered from metal-containing secondary materials); or(ii) Employed in a particular function or application as an effective substitute for a commercial product (for example, spent pickle liquor used as phosphorous precipitant and sludge conditioner in wastewater treatment).",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 261.1 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/used-or-reused-material/"
}