recycling

See also: Recycling

English

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Noun

recycling (countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
(uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
(usually figurative) Something made by recycling something else.
- 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:
  Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."

Derived terms

Translations

the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use

Arabic: إِعَادَةْ تَدْوِير f (ʔiʕādat tadwīr)
Bulgarian: рецикли́ране n (reciklírane)
Catalan: reciclatge (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 回收 (zh) (huíshōu), 資源回收再利用／资源回收再利用 (zīyuán huíshōu zài lìyòng), 循環再造／循环再造 (xúnhuán zàizào)
Czech: recyklace (cs) f
Danish: genbrug (da) n or c, genanvendelse (da) c
Dutch: recyclage (nl) f, recycling (nl)
Estonian: jäätmekäitlus
Faroese: endurnýtsla
Finnish: kierrätys (fi) n, kierrättäminen (fi)
French: recyclage (fr) m
Galician: reciclaxe (gl) f
Georgian: გადამუშავება (gadamušaveba), ნარჩენების გადამუშავება (narčenebis gadamušaveba)
German: Recycling (de) n, Wiederverwertung f
Greek: ανακύκλωση (el) f (anakýklosi)
Greenlandic: atoqqiineq
Hungarian: újrahasznosítás (hu)
Icelandic: endurnýting f
Irish: athchúrsáil
Italian: riciclaggio dei rifiuti
Japanese: リサイクル (ja) (risaikuru), 再使用 (ja) (さいしよう, saishiyō), リユース (ja) (riyūsu), 再利用 (ja) (さいりよう, sairiyō)
Korean: 재활용(再活用) (ko) (jaehwaryong)
Macedonian: рециклирање n (recikliranje), рецикла́жа f (recikláža)
Norman: èrcycliage m, èrcycliéthie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjenbruk (no) m, resirkulering m or f
Persian: بازیافت (fa) (bâzyâft)
Polish: recykling (pl) m, recyklizacja f
Portuguese: reciclagem (pt) f
Romanian: reciclare (ro) f
Russian: перерабо́тка отхо́дов f (pererabótka otxódov), втори́чная перерабо́тка f (vtoríčnaja pererabótka), реци́клинг (ru) m (recíkling), рецикли́рование (ru) n (reciklírovanije), утилиза́ция отхо́дов f (utilizácija otxódov), риса́йклинг m (risájkling)
Scottish Gaelic: ath-chuairteachadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рециклирање n

Roman: recikliranje (sh) n
Slovene: recikliranje n
Spanish: reciclaje (es)
Swedish: återvinning (sv) c, återanvändning (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: geri dönüşüm (tr)

Verb

recycling

present participle and gerund of recycle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English recycling or from recyclen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /riˈsaːi.k(ə.)lɪŋ/
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Hyphenation: re‧cy‧cling

Noun

recycling f or m (plural recyclings)

recycling
Synonym: recyclage

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