A system for matching one company's "waste" with the raw material needs of a second company.
Two or more companies exchange materials that would otherwise be discarded. It may also be an organisation with electronic and/or catalogue networks to match companies that want to exchange their materials.
The use by one company of an industrial waste generated by another firm.
Waste exchange is where the waste product of one process become the raw materials for a second process. This is similar to using pre-consumer material in a product. This represents a way of reducing waste disposal through reuse volumes for those wastes which cannot be eliminated.