Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- n. uncountable Those materials culled for recycling.
- v. present participle of recycle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
Examples
“Lets not use the term recycling, but that is pretty much what IWC is doing right here.”
“All this recycling is a very good thing indeed, because lead poisoning is nasty:”
“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.”
“Now that's what you call recycling: Climate campaigners to cross ocean in plastic boat kept ...”
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“Related: “Wine bottle recycling is low – but some bottles getting lighter””
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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.”
“If your recycling is missed today, set it out on your next collection day (two weeks from today).”
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“Only now it is called recycling a portion of your assets and removing their tax deferred status.”
“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.”
“In every place where it has been tried thus far, the RecycleBank system has produced significant increases in recycling, decreases in the demand for landfill, profits for the company, and savings for the taxpayers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘recycling’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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TECH - department store terms
lift, flask, datum, cater, absorbable, access road, account book, acoustic, adding machine, adhesive, advisory service, aeration and 231 more...
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Open List: There's A Fee For That!
List of fees, tolls, surcharges - stupid, disingenuous, predatory, or otherwise - that are levied by governments, banks, phone companies and businesses against citizens, customers, and consumers.
overdraft, connection, reconnection, deconnection, restocking, late, impact, cancellation, universal default, overuse, usage, transfer-balance and 143 more...
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AGRI - sustainable agriculture
abiota, aborigines, absorptive capacity, acceptable daily ..., acclimation, acid precipitation, acquired by weeds..., active solar heating, acute, adaptation, additives, aerosol and 447 more...
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solutions
one word (preferably / not a must). terms that solved, help solve or theoretically will solve the world's problems (past, present, future).
these can be general, umbrella terms or...veganism, neurotechnology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, globalism, sustainability, laws, ecology, education, immunization, switchgrass, Esperanto and 72 more...
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No end of plastic
frisbee, hula-hoop, cellulosic, plasticky, fictile, lego, gutta-percha, bakelite, Parkesine, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, celluloid and 39 more...
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Systems of Survival
Words from the book by Jane Jacobs.
Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival, system, survival, Ralph Waldo Emerson, morals, values, territories, trade, working life, loyal, honest and 123 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Cloroxyopia
For nonporous surfaces.
trademark, registered, comments, questions, trash, discard, available, recycling, empty, reuse, flush, disposal and 76 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for recycling.
GHibbs My adjectival use: 'The council provides recycling bags.' Aug 24, 2011
bilby You probably don't want to look at this Dec 9, 2007