recyclable

American  

[ree-sahyk-luh-buhl] / riˈsaɪk lə bəl /

adjective

1. able to be recycled, often specifically through a public collection service.

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Explanation

Don’t chuck anything recyclable because it can be used again. Glass bottles and paper are recyclable. Styrofoam and unicorns are not. Recycling happens when things like old paper, plastic food containers, and metal cans are turned into something new. Recyclable paper, for example, might find a new life as a cardboard box, and recyclable soda bottles might be transformed into plastic benches and tables. Not everything is recyclable, and people who care about reducing consumption and pollution will often make sure they're buying food and other goods in recyclable containers.

Example Sentences

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recyclable

In 1988, he started selling the iconic blue crab found in the waters of Venezuela’s giant Lake Maracaibo before expanding into shrimp farming and later into supermarkets and processing recyclable materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Last year there were 10 sites which took in most of Scotland's residual waste – the material left over after recyclable and compostable materials have been separated out.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Arc’teryx wants every product it makes to be fully recyclable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

This produced solid, recyclable photocatalysts that could continuously synthesize H2O2 under natural sunlight while maintaining stable performance.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Some of the lines are silly—about how he hogged the pepperoni pizza at our birthday party, put an obviously recyclable cup in the trash, and often leaves his shoelaces untied.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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