recycle
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Figures suggest only 61% of people in Wales recycle often at their workplace, with one in five saying they do not recall seeing the appropriate facilities to do so.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
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
In the process we exhale carbon dioxide, which the plants then recycle to make more carbohydrates.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Oklo’s Pluto reactor, selected by the Energy Department, recycles nuclear waste and aims for commercial power by late 2027.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 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
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Adding this much nuclear probably means the Pentagon and Energy Department work together to establish a reprocessing facility and final resting place for anything that can’t be recycled, usually only 4% of the spent fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Almost anything can be recycled if you throw enough money and energy at it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
An estimated100 gallons of water are used each performance; it exits through a drainage system on the floor and is then recycled for the following show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
He hauled himself through the jagged hole, shaking the last of the recycled mud from his pants.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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"It's still a relatively new thing to have recycling bins when we're away from home," said Angela Spiteri, senior marketing manager at WRAP.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The company's environmental manager Anthony Lee said it had taken a few months for staff to fully mirror their home recycling habits at the workplace, and that there had been a "significant improvement in compliance".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
But, in an example of creative recycling, when she asked her painter if he’d like the set, he was delighted to take it away and did.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
In 2010 Scotland promised “zero waste” with 70% recycling by 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Occasionally, Woo leaps over a trash can or a recycling bin, as if to taunt me for my lack of hops.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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