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Zero Waste Dictionary

  • Packaging

    Packaging

    These are materials that protect a product from external factors, facilitate its use and transport. Packaging, which can be produced from various materials, is also a product made of any material in order to convey product information to the consumer.

  • Packaging Waste

    Packaging Waste

    Unused packaging consisting of all types of materials that must be recycled or disposed of after consumption, such as paper, metal, glass and plastic, and that meet the definition of waste in the Waste Management Regulation.

  • Waste

    Waste

    Any substance or material that is left in the environment, needs to be thrown away or has completed its lifespan.

  • Waste Battery

    Waste Battery

    Batteries that have reached the end of their lifespan, are not reusable and must be collected and disposed of separately from household waste. Examples include cylindrical batteries and button batteries.

  • Vegetable Oil

    Vegetable Oil

    These are oils produced from plant sources and used for cooking and frying. For example; sunflower oil, hazelnut oil, olive oil.

  • Vegetable Waste Oil

    Vegetable Waste Oil

    These are waste oils that are produced after the use of cooking and frying vegetable oils.

  • Ultra Light Plastic Bags

    Ultra Light Plastic Bags

    Bags made of low density plastic with a thickness not exceeding 15 microns, used as primary packaging for open foods or for the hygiene of these foods.

  • Deposit/Return System

    Deposit/Return System

    It is a management system established by the marketer to support the recovery of used or reusable packaging.

  • Electrical and Electronic Goods

    Electrical and Electronic Goods

    All electrical and electronic devices that have reached the end of their useful life or are no longer functional. For example; dishwasher, refrigerator, vacuum cleaner, toaster, telephones, computers, etc.

  • Extended Producer Liability

    Extended Producer Liability

    It is the responsibility related to using one of the methods to be applied in the design, production and sales stages that include processes such as repair, reuse, dismantling and recycling in order to ensure the efficient use of resources without preventing the free circulation of products in the market, and that ensure the efficient use of products throughout their lifespan and facilitate this process.

  • Recycle

    Recycle

    The process of reprocessing products, materials or substances that have reached the end of their useful life and making them usable for a purpose.

  • Recovery

    Recovery

    It is the whole of the processes that enable waste to be reused for a useful purpose so that it can be substituted for materials used in the market or in a facility.

  • Group Packaging (Secondary Packaging)

    Group Packaging (Secondary Packaging)

    A type of auxiliary packaging used to facilitate the transportation of individual sales packages and to keep products together.

  • Separate Deposition at Source

    Separate Deposition at Source

    The process of collecting waste by separating it from other wastes from where it is generated.

  • Composite Packaging

    Composite Packaging

    Packaging produced by combining multiple materials with different physical properties in layers, which cannot be separated by hand.

  • Shipping Packaging (Tertiary Packaging)

    Shipping Packaging (Tertiary Packaging)

    It is the packaging used in logistics processes, excluding containers used in road, rail, sea and air transportation, which ensures the transportation, storage and protection of products.

  • Organic Recycling

    Organic Recycling

    It is the controlled separation of the biodegradable parts of packaging waste with the help of microorganisms in an oxygen or oxygen-free environment for the purpose of compost or methane gas production.

  • Battery

    Battery

    Energy source that works by directly converting chemical energy into electrical energy.

  • Market Offer

    Market Offer

    The process of presenting products on the market, with or without a fee, for the purpose of supplying or making them available for use.

  • Plastic Bag

    Plastic Bag

    Plastic bags with or without handles made of plastic, given to consumers at points of sale for the purpose of carrying goods or products.

  • Launched by

    Launched by

    Refers to the real or legal person who places a product on the market regardless of the sales method, including sales made through distance contracts within the scope of the Distance Contracts Regulation published in the Official Gazette dated 27/11/2014 and numbered 29188. It also includes the real or legal person who uses his/her name and/or trademark on the product for products that are not directly placed on the market by the manufacturer, and the representative and/or importer authorized by the manufacturer if the manufacturer is outside of Turkey.

  • Plastic Bag

    Plastic Bag

    They are carrying bags with or without handles given to consumers at points of sale to carry products or goods.

  • Sales Packaging (Primary Packaging)

    Sales Packaging (Primary Packaging)

    They are packaging designed as an individual sales unit that is used directly in delivering a product to the consumer and has the function of protecting the product and providing information.

  • Point of Sale

    Point of Sale

    Stores, markets and similar places of trade where goods or products are sold wholesale and/or retail.

  • Disposable Packaging

    Disposable Packaging

    Single-use packaging: These are packaging types that cannot be reused or re-evaluated after use.

  • Medical Waste

    Medical Waste

    Waste that carries the risk of infection, pathological waste and waste that has sharp-piercing properties.

  • Remote Selling

    Remote Selling

    It is a sales transaction made through communication tools such as letter, telephone, fax, radio, television, e-mail, text message and the internet.

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