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recycling (countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)
- The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
- (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
- (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."
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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)
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recycling
- present participle and gerund of recycle
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