Arabic Sustainability Dictionary
One agreed Arabic term for every sustainability concept — proposed by practitioners, scored by reviewers and validated with the University of Jeddah.
Recyclability
The extent to which a product or material can be collected, sorted and reprocessed into new material in practice.
القابلية لإعادة التدوير
Recycled content
The proportion, by mass, of a product or package made from recycled material.
المحتوى المعاد تدويره
Recycling
Reprocessing waste materials into products, materials or substances for their original or other purposes, excluding energy recovery.
إعادة التدوير
Reduce, reuse, recycle (3R)
A principle for minimising waste by using fewer resources, using products again and turning waste into new materials.
التقليل وإعادة الاستخدام وإعادة التدوير
Remanufacturing
Restoring used products to like-new condition through disassembly, repair and replacement of worn parts.
إعادة التصنيع
Resource efficiency
Using the earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment, producing more with less.
كفاءة استخدام الموارد
Resource use
The consumption of materials, water and energy by an organisation, including resource inflows and outflows such as products and waste.
استخدام الموارد