Pre-consumer plastic waste

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Waste arising from the plastics manufacturing (production and converting) processes (e.g. faulty production and sprues, edge sections of plastics sheets, production left overs).

Note: This term excludes re-utilized material, such as rework, regrind or scrap that has been generated in a given process and is capable of being reclaimed within that same manufacturing process.

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