recycling

See also: Recycling

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

recycling (countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)

1. The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
2. (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.

   He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.

3. (usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:

     Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."

Derived terms

• aspirational recycling
• e-recycling
• recycling bin
• recycling station
• recycling symbol
• wishful recycling

 

Translations

the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use

• Arabic: إِعَادَةْ تَدْوِير f (ʔiʕādat tadwīr)
• Bulgarian: рецикли́ране n (reciklírane)
• Catalan: reciclatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回收 (zh) (huíshōu), 資源回收再利用／资源回收再利用 (zīyuán huíshōu zài lìyòng), 循環再造／循环再造 (xúnhuán zàizào)

• Czech: recyklace (cs) f
• Danish: genbrug (da) n or c, genanvendelse (da) c
• Dutch: recyclage (nl) f
• Estonian: jäätmekäitlus
• Faroese: endurnýtsla
• Finnish: kierrätys (fi) n, kierrättäminen (fi)
• French: recyclage (fr) m
• Galician: reciclaxe (gl) f
• Georgian: გადამუშავება (gadamušaveba), ნარჩენების გადამუშავება (narčenebis gadamušaveba)
• German: Recycling (de) n, Wiederverwertung f
• Greek: ανακύκλωση (el) f (anakýklosi)
• Greenlandic: atoqqiineq
• Hungarian: újrahasznosítás (hu)
• Icelandic: endurnýting f
• Irish: athchúrsáil
• Italian: riciclaggio dei rifiuti
• Japanese: リサイクル (ja) (risaikuru), 再使用 (ja) (さいしよう, saishiyō), リユース (ja) (riyūsu), 再利用 (ja) (さいりよう, sairiyō)
• Korean: 재활용(再活用) (ko) (jaehwaryong)
• Macedonian: рециклирање n (recikliranje), рецикла́жа f (recikláža)
• Norman: èrcycliage m, èrcycliéthie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenbruk (no) m, resirkulering m or f

• Persian: بازیافت (fa) (bâzyâft)
• Polish: recykling (pl) m, recyklizacja f
• Portuguese: reciclagem (pt) f
• Romanian: reciclare (ro) f
• Russian: перерабо́тка отхо́дов f (pererabótka otxódov), втори́чная перерабо́тка f (vtoríčnaja pererabótka), реци́клинг (ru) m (recíkling), рецикли́рование (ru) n (reciklírovanije), утилиза́ция отхо́дов f (utilizácija otxódov), риса́йклинг m (risájkling)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-chuairteachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рециклирање n

  Roman: recikliranje (sh) n

• Slovene: recikliranje n
• Spanish: reciclaje (es)
• Swedish: återvinning (sv) c, återanvändning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: geri dönüşüm (tr)

Verb

recycling

1. present participle and gerund of recycle

See also

• upcycling