Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The activity or process of extracting and reusing useful substances found in waste.
- noun Materials that have been set apart from refuse so that they can be recycled.
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- noun The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- noun uncountable Those materials culled for recycling.
- verb Present participle of
recycle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
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Examples
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Lets not use the term recycling, but that is pretty much what IWC is doing right here.
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All this recycling is a very good thing indeed, because lead poisoning is nasty:
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Idea recycling is a cheap, easy way to keep churning out movies and collecting the millions of dollars that moviegoers eagerly fork over every week for 100 minutes of escapist diversion.
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Idea recycling is a cheap, easy way to keep churning out movies and collecting the millions of dollars that moviegoers eagerly fork over every week for 100 minutes of escapist diversion.
August 2004 2004
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Now that's what you call recycling: Climate campaigners to cross ocean in plastic boat kept ...
WN.com - Articles related to Plastic Bags without the fossil fuels 2009
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If your recycling is missed today, set it out on your next collection day (two weeks from today).
The Democrats Were Not Kidding About the Lobbying Barrage « PubliCola 2010
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Only now it is called recycling a portion of your assets and removing their tax deferred status.
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Like most environmentalism, recycling is a way to make the eco-Nazis FEEL good about themselves – it LOOKS like they are “SAVING” the planet, and they claim to be doing just that.
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Related: “Wine bottle recycling is low – but some bottles getting lighter”
Alternative wine packaging: a Q&A with Dave Pearce of Grove Mill winery | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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RECYCLE: Plastic recycling is beneficial because it decreases the amount of used plastics that end up in landfills and allows for fewer natural resourced being used to produce new plastic.
Seattle's Green Bag Campaign aka TBTAM 2009
bilby commented on the word recycling
You probably don't want to look at this
December 9, 2007
GHibbs commented on the word recycling
My adjectival use: 'The council provides recycling bags.'
August 24, 2011