Recycling provides core resources

SOER 2010 Key fact (Deprecated) Published 06 Jan 2012

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Recycling can meet a large proportion of the economy’s resources demand, alleviating pressure on ecosystems to provide resources and assimilate waste. Recycling already meets substantial proportions of demand for some resource groups, notably paper and cardboard, and iron and steel.

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