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French: valorisation (here)

English translation: recovery







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French term or phrase: valorisation (here)
English translation:recovery
Entered by:Mark Nathan
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Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology
French term or phrase: valorisation (here)
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Le logo poubelle barrée signifie que ce produit ne doit pas être jeté avec les ordures ménagères afin d'assurer un traitement, une valorisation et un recyclage appropriés à la présence éventuelle de substances potentiellement dangereuses pour la santé et l'environnement.

putting "beneficiation" as a translation here makes IMHO no sense..any ideas?
Maciej Andrzejczak
Poland
recovery
Explanation:
Collins Robert

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Note added at 7 mins (2007-01-10 21:59:41 GMT)
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or "recovering" depending on the contruction you are using.
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Mark Nathan
France
Note from asker to answerer
thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +4recovery
Mark Nathan
3 +1waste recovery
suezen
3 -1utilization
Johannes Gleim


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
waste recovery

Explanation:
perhaps ...
What is waste recovery? Recovery refers to all forms of use of waste materials after their initial discard, including recycling, composting of organic ...
www.brookes.ac.uk/eie/recov.htm - 23k
Beijing aims to become a model city in terms of waste management as it braces itself for temporary surge in its population as the 2008 Olympics draw ever ...
www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=12406 - 31k
The EU framework directive on waste defines the term “recovery” listing corresponding operations in Annex II of the Directive. ...
waste.eionet.europa.eu/definitions/recovery

suezen
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 26

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree writeaway: you're late-still working in the field? ;-)
34 mins
  -> I'd just hit the hay!
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
recovery

Explanation:
Collins Robert

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Note added at 7 mins (2007-01-10 21:59:41 GMT)
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or "recovering" depending on the contruction you are using.

Mark Nathan
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Tony M: Yes, "recovery and recycling" would work fine in your given context
11 mins

agree Assimina Vavoula
25 mins

agree writeaway: yup-is in Collins (handy dico-it certainly isn't my others...... ;-))
34 mins

agree Charlie Bavington
39 mins
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
utilization

Explanation:
http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType...

or exploitation, or recovery, depending on the use of waste (incineration, sales, transformation etc.)

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Note added at 46 Min. (2007-01-10 22:38:35 GMT)
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treatment, valorisation et recyclage = handling, utilization (exploitaiton) and recycling (of waste)

Waste Utilization, Management & Site Remediation
http://www.undeerc.org/programareas/wastemanagement/
and 133000 other Google hits.


Johannes Gleim
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Tony M: Would be pretty much ambiguous (or even counter-sense) in Asker's context as given
8 mins
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