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Recommendation SW7: Plan for a stronger technical recycling system

Establish a schedule and collaborative approach to enhance current recycling and to begin a stronger technical recycling system for the future. One way to strengthen the current system is to focus on optimizing paper recycling from both commercial and residential sources. The eventual aim is to design products to be reused and recycled in the technical closed-loop cycle (manufacture, reuse and recovery). This will include projecting and planning for infrastructure needs to support increased recycling and reuse of technical materials. We need to address expanding local markets and recycling businesses, increasing demand for products designed for recycling, and using incentives and price signals to increase recycling of technical cycle materials.

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