close the loop

1. business cliché To follow up on some outstanding task, activity, or issue to ensure that it is completed, resolved, or on track. I really need to get better about closing the loop. I've got so many different unresolved issues and I'm making very little progress on any of them! As a project manager, one of your roles is to help close the loop during development. Hey, call Stan in Accounting so we can close the loop on the budget projections.

2. To ensure that recycled material is being used in place of new or raw material, which then goes on to be recycled again. Our company is committed to closing the loop on plastic. We use 100% recycled plastic to make all our bottles, which themselves are 100% recyclable. Our environmental problems will only worsen if more companies don't make an effort to close the loop. If major producers in the area closed the loop, how much would that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases?