Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

valorisation (here)

English translation:

recovery

Added to glossary by Mark Nathan
Jan 10, 2007 21:52
17 yrs ago
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French term

valorisation

French to English Tech/Engineering Environment & Ecology
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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?
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 recovery
3 +1 waste recovery
3 -1 utilization
Change log

Apr 12, 2011 14:26: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Term asked" from " valorisation (here)" to " valorisation "

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): valorisation (here)
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recovery

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.
Peer comment(s):

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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French term (edited): valorisation (here)

waste recovery

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
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : you're late-still working in the field? ;-)
34 mins
I'd just hit the hay!
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French term (edited): valorisation (here)

utilization

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.
Peer comment(s):

disagree Tony M : Would be pretty much ambiguous (or even counter-sense) in Asker's context as given
8 mins
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