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recycle

[ree-sahy-kuhl] / riˈsaɪ kəl /


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According to Recycle Now, which advises on appropriate places to recycle items, the glasses are not wholly recyclable in your household waste.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Rather than dribbling at every opportunity, he now shows a better understanding of when to accelerate attacks and when to recycle possession.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Once these products are thrown away, however, they become extremely difficult to recycle.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

Large language models comb popular texts, recycle them into new combinations, and send the repurposed product back to customers, who close the feedback loop with a click.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

In the process we exhale carbon dioxide, which the plants then recycle to make more carbohydrates.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

She recycles everything, including canvases, sometimes painting over one piece to create a new one.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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

The mint also uses recycled silver, some of it extracted from old radios supplied by British hospitals.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

These challenges help explain why only 9% of discarded plastic is recycled.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

“I like to think I recycled those images from negative to positive.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

Discarded, the plastic mask had recycled itself, turning into pink dust, which the carpet in the elevator was already filtering away.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

“The Shards” is more problematic: Mr. Ellis has been recycling his depraved teen angels long enough that the show, a collaboration with Ryan Murphy, becomes parody, even comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

I walk the cafeteria perimeter to my table from last year, in the corner near the trash and recycling bins.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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