Example Sentences

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This research could help to reduce the environmental impact of additive manufacturing, which typically relies on nonrecyclable polymers and resins derived from fossil fuels.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

That honor, we learned, belongs to the class known as “tanglers” — the Christmas lights, garden hoses and other decidedly nonrecyclable items that can sabotage the vital and very expensive assembly line.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

As of Jan. 16, residents are now required to toss their chicken bones, veggie scraps and other food waste into their green bins instead of their nonrecyclable garbage destined for the landfill.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

So Materazzi and his team are helping to develop a process that can produce SAF from types of waste that are, so far, nonrecyclable.

From Scientific American • Dec. 3, 2021

The mounting environmental impact of the single-use nonrecyclable coffee fad has left coffee capsule Keurig inventor John Sylvan regretting his invention.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2018