precycle

verb

precycle

verb

Etymology From pre- + cycle, modelled on recycle.

1

To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.

Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.2008 October 30, Tanis Taylor, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Guardian:

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