recycle
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"Particularly because they're difficult to recycle due to their mixed materials."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
It says you can recycle the cardboard frames so long as you separate them from the lenses, which are harder to recycle.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their thick bark and elevated canopies offer protection, while smaller fires clear vegetation, recycle nutrients, and create conditions that help new sequoias grow.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Efforts to recycle rare earths or develop batteries that need fewer exotic components are still in their infancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
“It’s trash and recycle day, so Junie, you get to handle that tonight.”
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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The latest “Scary Movie,” which simply recycles the title “Scary Movie,” is as lazy, dumb and offensive as the others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Oklo has worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory to validate the reactor’s design, which recycles nuclear waste into energy, using surplus plutonium from the federal stockpile.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
The site recovers and recycles silver collected from a nearby site, Sigman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
The fine can be £100, but Mr Long said waste wardens prioritised promoting the Keeping Up With the Joneses campaign, created to ensure every household in Blaenau Gwent recycles.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
He worked in the barbershop for a while, then got a job working for Free Venture, an environmentally certified nonprofit that refurbishes and recycles e-waste on-site.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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It includes removing a book's spine so all the pages can be scanned rapidly - and the remains recycled.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Bamboo and recycled paper give sustainability-minded shoppers some alternatives to wood-pulp paper towels and toilet paper, but critics find them rougher than they like or not plush enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
On its website, the company lists Tencel, recycled cotton and dead-stock fabrics as some of its preferred materials to meet its sustainability standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Worldwide, only 22.3 percent of electronic waste was properly collected and recycled in 2022, according to a United Nations report.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Once the prayers have been printed out and said, the paper rolls back through another slot and is recycled into fresh paper again.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Pro tip: In the months leading up to the move, I also saved boxes from deliveries I received, instead of hauling them downstairs to the recycling bin.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
They were outraged about the lack of government accountability surrounding the closure of the Exide battery recycling plant in nearby Vernon that had contaminated thousands of homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
"It's great places like the recycling centres take clothing, but that doesn't go back to families again," Bex said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Those materials can be recovered from black mass through recycling processes such as chemical processing or smelting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
I can toss a soda can into the recycling bucket from across the room.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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