(Κάντε κλικ εδώ να εμφανιστεί η φωτογραφία.) I know, just once !!
They don't say recycling or reusing to give an item a second life?
When we give a material a second life, by reusing it,
in the form it existed already as in your case, we call it repair, recondition, maintain, re-use.
In recycling,
we reform the material,, e.g. metals with the use of a furnance and we produce a different shapes, or plastics by grinding and reforming by heat. In this case, recycling means that we reproduce a material but
we save the energy required to produce this material from its origin, mines or, petroleum, etc.
Especially, in aluminum, by recycling items such as beer / cola cans etc, we save 95 % of the energy required to convert bauxite to alu, as we reshape the final product ( Alu ) directly. Alu items are called "Energy Banks"
@Johan-Mani
