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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a recycling bin (= for rubbish that you can recycle )
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Those plastic cartons can go in the recycling bin.
recycle waste
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How much of our household waste is recycled?
recycled paper (= paper made from waste paper )
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The envelopes are made from 1OO percent recycled paper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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material
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Even drawing up proposals for recycling waste materials in Britain requires ten sub-committees.
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Even so, the need to recycle water and other materials is obvious.
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That is true even if incineration produces energy that can be sold, or if recycling recovers sellable materials .
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Often substantial energy savings are achieved by recycling waste materials .
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Safrane benefits from the marking of most of its plastic parts for recycling with materials specially chosen for their suitability.
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They keep their production costs low and help the environment by recycling waste material such as newspapers and household plastic bottles.
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Soil bacteria and fungi live by digesting and recycling dead plant material such as leaves and seed cases.
paper
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Demand for by-products from waste paper and cardboard recycling is exceeding supply in the West Country.
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The paper includes recommendations on recycling , noise levels, aerosol use and smoking at work.
percent
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By the year 2000, local authorities must recycle 25 percent of what we throw away.
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But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century.
waste
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The department is now advising other customers on how to recycle their waste .
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Ben Ord said the cost of attending the conference on recycling was a waste of money.
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So households have no incentive to minimise or recycle the waste they create.
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Nature has the capacity to recycle wastes and reconstitute them into new resources of concentrated material quality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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New techniques for recycling plastics are being introduced.
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Plastic bottles can be recycled into clothing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A new state law says they have to figure out a way to recycle it.
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It then bought the trash recycling plant from its private owner.
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The same can not be said for the San Marcos recycling plant, which could be considered more of a liability.
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Throughout their monthlong stay, they relied or mechanical and chemical processes to recycle their air and water.
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We welcome the emphasis on recycling coastal land for appropriate coastal uses.
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We will improve recycling and waste-disposal systems.