A nice thing to keep in mind is that complex products are essentially non-recyclable. A lot of the elements that went into making the 2010s state of the art electronics are now lost in landfills, never to be recovered or reused again.
I don't see how it's different from "reduce": you have to refuse to reduce.
For example, smarthome lighting. The lightbulbs could be dumb, and all the smarts could live in the lightswitches, that would reduce waste. Conversely, the traditional smarthome lighting approach is very wasteful, every lightbulb is a small computer, and who knows what percent of the discarded lightbulbs gets recycled.
By definition, that’s what reduce is. Whether you need it (reducing water consumption) or don’t (reducing smart bulb consumption), it’s reduce.
Can you name some examples?