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Recycling

Recycling

See also: recycling

German

Noun

Recycling f ‎(genitive Recycling or Recyclings, no plural)

recycling (process)

Synonyms

Müllverwertung
Sekundärrohstoffgewinnung
Wiederaufbereitung

recycling

recycling

See also: Recycling

English

Noun

recycling ‎(countable and uncountable, plural recyclings)

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
(uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.

Translations

the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use

Arabic: إِعَادَة تَدْوِير f ‎(ʾiʿādat tadwīr)
Bulgarian: рециклиране n ‎(reciklírane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 回收 (zh) ‎(huíshōu), 資源回收再利用, 资源回收再利用 ‎(zīyuán huíshōu zài lìyòng), 循環再造, 循环再造 ‎(xúnhuán zàizào)
Czech: recyklace (cs) f
Danish: genanvendelse (da) c, genbrug (da) n, c
Dutch: recyclage (nl) f
Estonian: jäätmekäitlus
Finnish: kierrätys (fi) n
French: recyclage (fr) m
German: Recycling (de) n, Wiederverwertung f
Greenlandic: atoqqiineq
Hungarian: újrahasznosítás (hu)
Italian: riciclaggio dei rifiuti
Japanese: リサイクル (ja) ‎(risaikuru), 再使用 ‎(さいしよう, saishiyō), リユース (ja) ‎(riyūsu), 再利用 ‎(さいりよう, sairiyō)
Norman: èrcycliage m, èrcycliéthie f
Korean: 재활용 (ko) ‎(jaehwal-yong) (再活用 (ko))

Macedonian: рециклирање n ‎(reciklíranje), рециклажа f ‎(recikláža)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjenbruk (no) m, resirkulering m, f
Persian: بازیافت (fa) ‎(bâzyâft)
Portuguese: reciclagem (pt) f
Romanian: reciclare (ro) f
Russian: перерабо́тка отхо́дов f ‎(pererabótka otxódov), втори́чная перерабо́тка f ‎(vtoríčnaja pererabótka), реци́клинг (ru) m ‎(recíkling), рецикли́рование (ru) n ‎(reciklírovanije), утилиза́ция отхо́дов f ‎(utilizácija otxódov), риса́йклинг m ‎(risájkling)
Scottish Gaelic: ath-chuairteachadh m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: рециклирање n

Roman: recikliranje (sh) n
Slovene: recikliranje n
Spanish: reciclaje
Swedish: återvinning (sv) c
Turkish: geri dönüşüm (tr)

Verb

recycling

present participle of recycle