recyclable

English

Etymology

From recycle +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

recyclable (not comparable)

1. Able to be recycled.

   Soda cans are recyclable.

   • 2005 March 25, “Collooney: Bring centre: another plea”, in Sligo Champion:

     People are reminded again, as before, please do not leave plastic bottles, milk containers or otherwise at the Bring Centre – there are no plastic containers there any longer for such recyclable materials.

Derived terms

• recyclability

Translations

able to be recycled

Armenian: վերամշակելի (veramšakeli) Bulgarian: рециклируем (recikliruem) Catalan: reciclable Chinese: Mandarin: 可回收 (zh) (kěhuíshōu) Czech: recyklovatelný Dutch: recycleerbaar, recyclebaar (nl) Finnish: kierrätettävä, kierrätyskelpoinen French: recyclable (fr) German: recycelbar (de), recyclebar (de), wiederverwertbar (de) Greek: ανακυκλώσιμος (el) (anakyklósimos) Hungarian: újrahasznosítható (hu), újrafelhasználható (hu) Icelandic: endurvinnanlegur (is), endurnýtanlegur Italian: riciclabile (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: veçerxînbar Norman: r'cycliabl'ye Norwegian: Bokmål: resirkulerbar Polish: recyklingowalny (pl), przetwarzalny Portuguese: reciclável Romanian: reciclabil Russian: (please verify) приго́дный для перерабо́тки (prigódnyj dlja pererabótki) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: рециклабилан, обновљив Roman: reciklabilan, obnovljiv (sh) Spanish: reciclable Swedish: återvinningsbar

Noun

recyclable (plural recyclables)

1. An object that can be recycled, such as a soda can.

   The garbage and recyclables need to be taken out to the street tomorrow.

   • 1996, James A. Hufnagel, Kathie Robitz, Barbara Sabella, Kitchens: design, remodel, build, page 28:

     A pull-out trash drawer gives you a place to hide kitchen waste and recyclables.

French

Etymology

From recycler +‎ -able, influenced by English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.klabl/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Adjective

recyclable (plural recyclables)

1. recyclable

Further reading

• “recyclable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.