The word 'recyclable' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to something that can be thrown away but recycled instead of thrown into a landfill. For example, "These grocery bags are made of recyclable material, so you don't have to feel bad about throwing them away."
The target was for collecting recyclable waste, not for recycling it.
Recycling requires the rubbish to be sorted into recyclable metals, plastics, glass and paper, with the biological residue then broken down using anaerobic microorganisms into biogas and compost.
Many communities now conduct source separation and recycling programs, in which homeowners and businesses separate recyclable materials from garbage and place them in separate containers for collection.
Materials recovery facility (MRF), also known as materials reclamation facility or materials recycling facility, solid-waste management plant that processes recyclable materials to sell to manufacturers as raw materials for new products.
A Nespresso representative declined to comment on Mr Sylvan's remarks but said its capsules were made from aluminium, which is infinitely recyclable, and that it had reached an 80 per cent recycling capacity.
As a result, a quarter of Americans lack access to proper bins for collecting recyclable material, and another quarter go without any curbside recycling at all.Some companies are starting to invest in recycling infrastructure.
The recycling industry squeezes value from used goods, but nothing is 100% recyclable.
Aaron Engel-Hall, a member of the Stanford University team which last year created a prototype for the world's first fully modular and recyclable laptop, explains that an entire portable computer can, theoretically, be recycled.
Numerous scientific and engineering issues, therefore, must be resolved, first, in order to create consumer products that are easily recyclable at the end of their life and, second, to make recycling of rare earths both meaningful and economical, thus making the best use of the rare earths an extremely valuable but limited resource provided by nature.
About three-quarters of the material in a car is recyclable, and in the United States 19 out of 20 scrapped cars are recycled.
Cafédirect launched a food-grade polypropylene pod, which is recyclable anywhere that accepts mixed plastics, and works continuously with the manufacturer to develop and reduce the pod packaging.
