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Wrap launches online Recycled Product Guide for construction industry.


U.K.-based Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has launched a new online tool intended to help the construction industry increase recycled content in construction work.

The searchable Recycled Product Guide documents more than 150 products across 35 common product categories that are available with higher levels of recycled content for use in construction, regeneration Regeneration (biology)

The process by which an animal restores a lost part of its body. Broadly defined, the term can include wound healing, tissue repair, and many kinds of restorative activities.
 and refurbishment re·fur·bish  
tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es
To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.



re·fur
 projects.

This new tool presents up-to-date product descriptions and supplier details. As well as listing product suppliers, each entry includes details on the product's percentage of recycled content, its life expectancy Life Expectancy

1. The age until which a person is expected to live.

2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables.
 and additional information such as the recycled materials used. The database can be accessed through http://rcproducts.wrap.org See .org.

(networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations.

RFC 1591.
.uk/.
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Title Annotation:C & D NEWS
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Buyers guide
Date:May 1, 2007
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