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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
downcycle .
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Examples
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Products designed with fewer, simpler, less-toxic, and more recyclable ingredients enable everything from carpets to car parts to be fully recycled at the end of their useful lives -- not simply "downcycled" into commingled, less-valuable materials.
Joel Makower: The State of Green Business: Good News and Bad 2008
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"The plastic used to create the bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade and can't be recycled - it can only be 'downcycled' to a lower-grade plastic that isn't used for much," she said.
unknown title 2009
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Even in Europe, where PVC recycling is more advanced than in the United States, less than 3 percent of post-consumer PVC is recycled, and most of this is merely "downcycled" into other products which means there is no net reduction in the production of virgin PVC.
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Even in Europe, where PVC recycling is more advanced than in the United States, less than 3 percent of post-consumer PVC is recycled, and most of this is merely "downcycled" into other products which means there is no net reduction in the production of virgin PVC.
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Consequently, many postconsumer feedstocks are "downcycled" into less-demanding applications.
Machine Design - 2008
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"downcycled" into unrecyclable items like pipes or fence posts-so even recycling can't prevent landfills and oceans from piling up. this new discovery from scientists at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Stanford University is pretty fascinating.
The New Republic - All Feed Bradford Plumer 2010
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"downcycled" like most plastics, being remade into something lesser, PLA can be endlessly turned into new PLA, Hirshberg said.
Phillies Zone 2010
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And sometimes, recycled HDPE gets downcycled into other products like decking materials.
Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011
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And sometimes, recycled HDPE gets downcycled into other products like decking materials.
Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011
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And sometimes, recycled HDPE gets downcycled into other products like decking materials.
Stiv J. Wilson: In Defense of Plastic Bag Bans Stiv J. Wilson 2011
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