n
Setting aside materials for recycling that are not actually recycled by one's garbage collection service.
n
A machine that destroys cars, turning them into scrap metal and other waste.
v
(Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
n
(UK, informal) a special-purpose vehicle for the collection of domestic (and commercial) waste.
n
One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.
n
(US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
n
A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
n
Something that compacts things (e.g. trash).
n
A person or business that composts waste
n
(US) Any product for sale that does not require special storage treatment, especially textiles.
n
A storage place for supplies, especially military.
n
Alternative spelling of dumpster diver [(US) A person who practices dumpster diving.]
v
To recycle or re-use electronic or electrical waste.
n
A group (especially an online messaging group) that engages in freecycling.
n
A person who freecycles.
n
A person who salvages and consumes food that has been thrown away, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism via waste reduction.
n
the practice of living as a freegan
n
(programming) An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
n
A waste recycling plant. Often shortened to MRF
n
Materials recovery facility (or materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility, multi-reuse facility): a waste recycling plant.
n
(US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group.
n
Raw material sent to, and processed in, a waste recycling plant or materials recovery facility.
v
(transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
n
A man employed to collect recyclables from people's homes.
n
A truck used to pick up recyclables from people's houses.
n
A device that recycles materials automatically
n
A person who recycles, or a machine used to recycle.
n
A symbol universally associated with recyclable materials. It is composed of three crooked arrows arranged as a triangular clockwise Möbius strip.
n
A recycler; one who recycles.
n
A company that rolls out scrap metal again.
n
A car which is sold to a scrap metal dealer for the purpose of recycling the metal; often cars where the value of metal exceeds the value of the actual car on the secondary market.
n
A person who sells scrap for profit
n
The collection of recyclable waste separately from that which is not recyclable.
n
Alternative spelling of tass [(rare or obsolete) A heap, pile.]
n
(rare) A machine that removes items from bags.
n
A person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption.
v
(transitive) To discard in a wastebasket.
n
(neologism) Putting items out for recycling based on hope that they will be recycled without knowledge that they are recyclable.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 6 letters and means "Not working as originally intended." Can you find it?