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recycle

[ree-sahy-kuhl] / riˈsaɪ kəl /


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That’s the measure of successful policy: Does it help America make more, recycle more and build more with aluminum?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

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

According to Recycle Now, which advises on appropriate places to recycle items, the glasses are not wholly recyclable in your household waste.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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

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

She also recommended French producer Constellium, which recycles aluminum scrap, among other business lines.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

Instead, they interact with their surroundings as parts of a much larger galactic ecosystem, with material created by one generation of stars being recycled and redistributed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

In March, it launched a five-piece capsule—including a jacket, hat and several bags—made from recycled materials and designed to be recycled again at the end of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The markers had been recycled for a few thousand dollars, but it cost the city $40,000 to replace them, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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 museum was housed in a recycled portable classroom building parked adjacent to Power Plant No. 1.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

It means recycling and keeping more aluminum scrap here at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

The ban on sending black bag waste to landfill was designed to encourage more recycling, with the residual waste being sent instead to incinerators where it is burned to create electricity.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The national average price of copper at recycling centers is from $3 to $4.50 per pound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The human study primarily investigated membrane recycling at synapses.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

“Don’t want to drown you,” he says, pointing at our massive pile of recycling.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead




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