recycle
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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
PVC is especially challenging to recycle because it contains chlorine and can include a wide range of additives depending on how it was manufactured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
It said it hoped increased participation through understanding the benefits would help meet its target to recycle nearly two-thirds of Cornwall's waste by 2029.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Another pair of students did a big project where they helped recycle athletic shoes to keep them out of the landfill.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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
The site recovers and recycles silver collected from a nearby site, Sigman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
But even though Vietnam only recycles about a third of its own plastic waste, it also imports thousands of tons annually from Europe, the United States and Asia.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
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
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Everything has been designed and built in-house, using recycled materials to reduce costs and environmental impact, produced using 3D printers that thump away constantly in the background.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The company which owns the site, SOS Aggregates, denied it was dumping waste and said it was using "high-grade" recycled construction material to create a training area for horses and a stable.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Her creations include recycled car tires—symbols of the capital’s traffic-clogged modern life—with sides and treads imprinted with gilded Aztec symbols, including the flying feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
New containerboard mills process recycled boxes, not wood pulp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
To get water from the stagnant reservoir, somebody had to climb down a steep eight-hundred-foot hillside, gathering their water in gourds or recycled plastic jugs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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The bikes will then be taken to a recycling center and shredded, according to Edds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The council said it was "working to resolve the situation" but a "multi-step setup process must occur" before new waste and recycling collection services are set up.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Supplies will grow by 2% as recycling of the metal improves, while the lack of investor desire to hold platinum will weigh on global demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Only a few metres away, a multi-jointed robotic arm developed by France's CEA research agency dismantled an electric battery model for recycling.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
On the sidewalk next to the can was a big blue recycling bag—the same bag Mrs. Dorfer was stuffing things into before.
From "Scream for Ice Cream: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #2" by Carolyn Keene
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