recycle
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Enjoy yourself, take the brochures home and recycle them.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
For decades, rich countries collected low-value plastic and shipped more than a quarter of it to China and other poorer countries that promised to recycle it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
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
The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's fa-ther was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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Ngumoha recycles the ball to left-back Milos Kerkez.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
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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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
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
"Recycling levels have stalled in Scotland since the Scottish government encouraged a new generation of waste incinerators to be built, meaning that household waste which could have been recycled is being burned instead," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Beijing’s long-term strategy involves increasing iron-ore supply at home and overseas, while also increasing the use of recycled scrap steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Not for the first or last time, a composer recycled a good tune that had not yet found its audience.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Autophagy functions much like an internal recycling system.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
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
At the end of the week, the recycling truck picked them up and they clinked and clanked so loudly that the whole neighborhood could hear it.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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