recycling

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Noun

recycling (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.

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Arabic: إعادة تدوير (iʻādat tadwīr) Bosnian: recikliranje (bs) n. Chinese: trad. and simpl. 回收 (pinyin: huíshōu), trad. 資源回收再利用, simpl. 资源回收再利用 (pinyin: zīyuán huíshōu zài lìyòng) Croatian: recikliranje (hr) n. Danish: genanvendelse (da) c., genbrug (da) n. and c. Finnish: kierrätys (fi) n. German: Recycling n., Wiederverwertung f. Greenlandic: atoqqiineq (kl) Italian: riciclaggio dei rifiuti (it) Japanese: リサイクル (risaikuru) Macedonian: рециклирање (mk) (reciklíranje) n., рециклажа (mk) (recikláža) f.

Persian: بازيافت n. Romanian: reciclare (ro) f. Russian: переработка отходов f. (pererabótka otxódov), вторичная переработка (vtoríčnaja pererabótka) f., рециклинг (retsíkling) m., рециклирование (retsiklírovanije) n., утилизация отходов (utilizátsija otxódov) f. Scottish Gaelic: ath-chuairteachadh (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: рециклирање n. Roman: recikliranje n. Slovene: recikliranje (sl) n. Swedish: återvinning c. Turkish: geri dönüşüm (tr)

Verb

recycling

1. Present participle of recycle.