Remanufacturing and other VRPs have been identified as a way to reduce waste and other adverse environmental impacts through prolonging the useful life of a product or its components. In addition, these activities can have enormous economic and social benefits: they are generally labour-intensive and require skilled labour to perform. This study was carried out, on behalf of ECCC, to quantify the potential benefits of VRPs in Canada; the costs associated with carrying them out; and to identify barriers to the growth of these activities in Canada.
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