Repair, refurbish, remanufacture, recycle
Differentiate repair, refurbishment, remanufacture, and recycling at recall speed.
Repair vs refurbishment Repair solves a fault; refurbishment prepares the product for a fuller next life. Refurbishment vs remanufacture Remanufacture is typically more standardized and deeper than refurbishment. What makes recycling different from the other three loops? Recycling breaks the product or component down into material feedstock after more value has already been lost. It matters, but it usually sits outside the higher-value use loops. We will just recover it later. Better reply Recovering later can mean very different value outcomes. Should we be fixing the product, restoring it, rebuilding it, or only recovering material? The trap is using one…
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