Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recyclable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a recyclable container (=that can be put through a special process and used again)
▪ Try to buy food that is packed in recyclable containers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
material
▪ During the Worthing trial, three-quarters of the 5,000 households involved used the crates to collect recyclable materials.
▪ The recyclable material will be sold by the Borough at £15.40 per tonne.
▪ Get into the habit of putting recyclable material into its own bag or box.
▪ In many areas, any money raised from the sale of recyclable materials goes to local charities.
▪ Waste Management had a facility in Philadelphia that originally took in recyclable materials for free.
▪ The lagoons would be lined and filled with organic waste, after recyclable materials had been separated.
▪ Some Local Councils are now beginning to recycle waste or positioning containers for recyclable materials in supermarket car parks and elsewhere.
▪ A number of products are now packaged in recyclable materials.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ recyclable bottles
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both the glass jars and the steel cans are recyclable, but you knew that.
▪ During the Worthing trial, three-quarters of the 5,000 households involved used the crates to collect recyclable materials.
▪ For example, glass products are completely recyclable.
▪ Get into the habit of putting recyclable material into its own bag or box.
▪ The recyclable material will be sold by the Borough at £15.40 per tonne.
▪ The blue is for recyclable garbage.
▪ The borough estimates that recyclable waste amounts to 20,000 of the total 80,000 tonnes generated annually.
▪ You can buy a new electric tea kettle featuring easy-to-dismember recyclable parts.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recyclable
1971, from recycle + -able. As a noun, by 1973. Related: Recyclables.
Wiktionary
recyclable
a. Able to be recycled. n. An object that can be recycled, such as a soda can.
WordNet
recyclable
adj. possible to use again [syn: reclaimable, reusable]
Usage examples of "recyclable".
That same year up to 5,000 tons of glass bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard, and other recyclable waste on Capitol Hill was simply dumped in a landfill, no questions asked.
Have you ever followed the truck that picks up your recyclables to see where it goes?
They have coats and bedrolls for blankets and old twine-handle shopping bags and Glad bags for recyclable cans and bottles.
Have you ever followed the truck that picks up your recyclables to see where it goes?