Sentence examples for recycled from inspiring English sources

"The diversity of plastics is really defeating its ability to be recycled," says John Ruston, an advocate of recycling at the Environmental Defence Fund in Washington, DC, who is critical of the plastics industry for not doing more to encourage the practice.

Domestic consumption went up, but brimming recycling bins and cheap virgin pulp meant that suppliers of recycled pulp never made the money they were expecting.

The council was ranked 302nd out of 326 local authorities for its recycling credentials, despite pledging that 70% of all domestic waste would be recycled by May 2015.

The scale of this technological achievement is admirable, the logic behind it clear; but all this impressive architecture has been built without any political discussion about whether this is the right thing to do, or any endorsement from millions of members of the public, whose personal lives are now being recycled through giant databases.

The second stubborn myth, recycled on the BBC this week, is that the demise of the coal industry was simply a matter of profit and loss.

We tend to focus on the positive: over 60bn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles were recycled in Europe in 2012.

Spero recycled the anguished outpourings by the poet Antonin Artaud: terrified recollections of electric shock therapy, crazed railings against God and the universe, delirious streams of obscene "fecal poetry".

And a lot of this waste could be recycled instead".

Councillor Rishi Shori said that the £28,000 a day it costs the council to deal with rubbish which could have been recycled could be spent on better things: "£28,000 is the cost of a good social worker, for example.

One of the chief tools used to debunk stuff like the fact that US consumers plough through 1,500 single-use plastic water bottles a second and less than 20% are recycled is so-called Life Cycle Assessment.

One of the ways it has responded to the growing clamour against plastic bags, says Alasdair James, its director of recycling, waste and packaging, is to use recycled ones.Most of the bottles Closed Loop is currently recycling would otherwise have been shipped to China to be transformed into lower-grade plastic for cheap hard hats, artificial fleeces and the like.