Glossary

A recyclable material can be reused at a similar level of quality and if it is technically possible to recycle the material and there is at least one commercial recycling facility.

A regulation is a legal norm intended to shape conduct that is a by-product of imperfection. A regulation may be used to prescribe or proscribe conduct ("command-and-control" regulation), to calibrate incentives ("incentive" regulation), or to change preferences ("preferences shaping" regulation").

Renewable resources are often described as 'repeatable materials' which grow and can be replanted. In textiles animal fibres such as wool are considered renewable.