Look up: recycling

1. Recycling
   Process by which materials that would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated or processed and returned to the economic mainstream to be reused in the form of raw materials or finished goods.
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2. recycling
   [n] - the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
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3. Recycling
   the recovery of reusable materials from waste.
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4. Recycling
   the process of changing rubbish into either the same product or a different one. It involves some kind of industrial process. For example, using old plastic bottles to make new ones.
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5. Recycling
   Re-use of a product as a raw material for use in the same or another product
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6. Recycling
   is a form of recovery by reprocessing of waste materials to produce a usable raw material or product. Recycling includes organic recycling, e.g. composting under controlled conditions, but not energy recovery
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7. Recycling
   The re-use of material.
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8. Recycling
   To treat or process waste materials so as to make them suitable for reuse. The key to successful recycling of materials contained in refuse lies in the separation of recyclable components from the main bulk of the waste.
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9. Recycling
   Reclamation of materials without endangering human health and the environment.
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10. recycling
    : Involves the reprocessing of wastes, either into the same material (closed-loop) or a different material (open-loop recycling). Commonly applied to non-hazardous wastes such as paper, glass, cardboard, plastics and metals. However, hazardous wastes (such as solvents) can also be recycled by specialist companies, or using in-house equipment.
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11. recycling
    the reprocessing in a production process of the waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes including organic recycling but excluding energy recovery Category: Technical and industry in general • returning to an earlier point in a countdown to prepare the space vehicle for a second attempt Category: Transport
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12. Recycling
    The process of transforming materials into raw materials for manufacturing new products, which may or may not be similar to the original product.
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13. Recycling
    The use of already used aggregate for road construction, by addition to virgin raw materials or by reprocessing.
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14. recycling
    <radiobiology> In most tokamaks the pulse length is at least an order of magnitude larger than the particle containment time. Thus on average each plasma ion goes to the wall or limiter and returns to the plasma many times during the length of the discharge. This process is called recycling. (...
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15. recycling
    noun the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
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16. recycling
    recovery and reprocessing of waste materials for use in new products. The basic phases in recycling are the collection of waste materials, their ... [13 related articles]
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17. Recycling
    Collecting and reprocessing a resource so it can be used again. An example is collecting aluminum cans, melting them down, and using the aluminum to make new cans or other aluminum products.
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18. Recycling
    Term to denote the operation of re-opening powered passenger doors. Depending on the system, doors can be designed to re-open in the event of obstacle detection or failing to reach to fully closed mode within a predetermined time.
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19. Recycling
    Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for "convention...
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20. Recycling
    The use of principal receipts received from borrowers to acquire or originate new loans.
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21. recycling
    
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22. Recycling
    The act of processing existing pavement material into usable material for a layer within a new pavement structure
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23. Recycling
    The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product.
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24. recycling
    The process of converting materials that are no longer useful as designed or intended into a new product. Related category • RECYCLING AND WASTE DISPOSAL
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25. recycling
    recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. During World War I and World War II, shortages of essential materials led to collection drives for silk, rubb...
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