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recycling

  • noun

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

Other meanings

  1. Those materials culled for recycling.

    “He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.”

  2. Something made by recycling something else.

Related words

  • antirecycling
  • biorecycling
  • grasscycling
  • nonrecycling
  • peecycling
  • wishcycling
  • recycling time
  • aspirational recycling
  • recycling bin
  • recycling symbol
  • wishful recycling
  • e-recycling

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “recycling” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.