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recycle

[ree-sahy-kuhl] / riˈsaɪ kəl /


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Enjoy yourself, take the brochures home and recycle them.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

As some machines demonstrated their ability to clean or recycle objects, others showed they could deliver parcels during a live demonstration in Brussels.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

Picking the fungi can disrupt the forest's ecosystem, which helps recycle nutrients, support wildlife, and preserve some 55,000 ancient trees.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

His father had been trying to figure out a way to recycle old sneakers, and suddenly a pair of sneakers fell on top of him, seemingly out of nowhere, like a gift from God.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

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

Bacelar disputed the accusations, and said the lawsuit is filled with recycled claims that were previously litigated and dismissed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Research from Zero Waste Scotland also suggests that more than half of the waste placed in black bins could be recycled.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Scottish government's environmental regulator says households recycled 42.8% of waste in 2025 - down from 44.3% the previous year.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Déjà vu: The same arguments are being recycled today for artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

Paladin EnviroTech, a recycling company eyeing a new role as a supplier of rare-earth metals, has identified old wind turbines, whose room-size generators can house huge rare-earth magnets, as its top target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

At a recycling plant in Coventry, I watched staff sorting rubbish on a fast-moving conveyor belt when a crushed yellow sharps container suddenly appeared among the waste.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The boom in injectable weight-loss drugs, such as Mounjaro and Wegovy, is leading to more used needles turning up at recycling centres, putting workers at risk of serious injury and infection, bosses say.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

But that doesn’t matter when the market’s not only crowded, but recycling its wares every week.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Some homeless guys go through trash bins on the street and sort through people's recycling from the curb to get bottles to turn in.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon


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