单词	recycling
释义	recyclingre‧cy‧cling /riːˈsaɪklɪŋ/ ●●○ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES School students collected tons of drinks cans and bottles for recycling. The recycling program involves every household in the neighborhood. the city's recycling program EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After a short while, taking paper, glass and metals for recycling becomes a habit. But it is still generally cheaper than the alternatives of incinerating or recycling. Such a move, it is suggested, would encourage water recycling. The recycling of polystyrene, for instance, requires temperatures above 200C and the materials are extensively filtered during the procedure. The truth is that obligatory recycling protects markets as well as the environment. These included waste reduction, paper and cardboard recycling and improving energy efficiency. They are of great importance not only as food for birds and mammals, but also in pollination and recycling of nutrients. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorprotecting the environment► environmentally friendly environmentally friendly products and methods do not damage the environment: · Many shoppers will buy environmentally friendly washing powders even if they are slightly more expensive.· Of course public transportation is more environmentally friendly than cars, but it needs to be efficient or people won't use it.· an environmentally friendly alternative to the aerosol spray ► eco- involved with or relating to the protection of the environment - used before some adjectives and nouns: · eco-friendly agriculture· Activists want the government to invest in low-impact eco-tourist facilities.· Officials see a role for sophisticated eco-technology to help eradicate pollution sweeping across the region. ► organic organic fruit, vegetables, grains etc are grown naturally without the use of chemicals that can harm the insects, birds, bacteria etc that depend on them to live. Organic meat, eggs etc come from animals or birds that are fed on natural food and contain no harmful artificial chemicals: · Worried by repeated food scares, more and more people are buying organic products.· For this recipe, use a free-range, organic chicken.organic farming (=the production of organic vegetables, meat etc): · Several farmers in the county have moved to organic farming recently. ► renewable renewable forms of energy, fuel, materials etc can be replaced naturally, so that they are never completely used up: · The 'green' housing community uses renewable energy sources such as solar power.· The problem with fossil fuels is that they are not renewable. ► sustainable farming methods, methods of managing forests, hunting practices etc that are sustainable do not use up more land or trees or kill more animals than can be replaced, and therefore do not damage the environment: · All wood used in our furniture comes with a certificate saying it comes from sustainable forests.· Traditional agricultural methods employed by the local people are highly sustainable. ► recycling when waste made of materials such as paper, metal, glass, and plastic is not thrown away, but is put through a special process so that it can be used again: · School students collected tons of drinks cans and bottles for recycling.· The recycling program involves every household in the neighborhood. ► conservation the practice of protecting animals, plants, forests etc, for example by officially not allowing building on the areas where they live or by not allowing them to be hunted: · The group is mainly concerned with bird conservation in coastal areas.conservation of: · the conservation of several species of dolphinconservation area (=a place where plants, wild animals etc are officially protected): · The flower now exists only in a small conservation area in Essex. WORD SETS► Environment & waste acid rain, nounbiohazard, nounbottle bank, nouncatalytic converter, nounclean-up, nounconservancy, nounconservation, nounconservation area, nounconservationist, nounconserve, verbcontaminant, nouncontaminate, verbeco-, prefixeco-friendly, adjectiveecological, adjectiveecologist, nounecology, nounecosystem, nouneffluent, nounenvironmental, adjectiveenvironmentalist, nounenvironmentally friendly, adjectiveglobal warming, noungreen, verbgreenhouse effect, noungreenhouse gas, noungreen revolution, nounhabitat, nounnational park, nounnoise pollution, nounozone, nounozone-friendly, adjectiveparticulates, nounpoison, verbpollute, verbradioactive waste, nounradioactivity, nounrecyclable, adjectiverecycle, verbrecycling, nounreforestation, nounsewage, nounsewage works, nounsmog, nounsulphur dioxide, nountip, nountoxic waste, nounwaste disposal, nounwaste product, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a recycling bin (=for rubbish that you can recycle)· Those plastic cartons can go in the recycling bin. 1[uncountable] the process of treating used objects or materials so that they can be used again:  Recycling is important to help protect our environment.2[singular] American English informal things that are to be recycled:  Don’t forget to take out the recycling.
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