recycling

noun — 3 senses

recycling

noun

1

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

2

Those materials culled for recycling.

He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.

3

Figuratively, Usually Something made by recycling something else.

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."1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:

Derived terms: antirecycling, aspirational recycling, biorecycling, e-recycling, grasscycling, nonrecycling, peecycling, recycling bin, recycling station, recycling symbol, recycling time, wishcycling, wishful recycling

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