Garbage vs. Recycling — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Garbage and Recycling
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Garbage
Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, nor toxic waste products.
Recycling
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept.
Garbage
Rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse
A garbage dump
Garbage littered the estate
Recycling
The activity or process of extracting and reusing useful substances found in waste.
Garbage
Food wastes, as from a kitchen.
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Recycling
Materials that have been set apart from refuse so that they can be recycled
She set the recycling out by the curb.
Garbage
Refuse; trash.
Recycling
The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
Garbage
A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded
Tossed the apple core into the garbage.
Recycling
(uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
Garbage
Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish
Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.
Recycling
Present participle of recycle
Garbage
Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
Recycling
The act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
Garbage
Food waste material of any kind.
Garbage
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
Garbage
A place or receptacle for waste material.
He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
Garbage
Nonsense; gibberish.
This machine translation is garbage
Garbage
Something or someone worthless.
Garbage
(obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
Garbage
An easy shot.
Garbage
To eviscerate
Garbage
(informal) bad, crap, shitty
Garbage
Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
Garbage
To strip of the bowels; to clean.
Garbage
Food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Garbage
A worthless message
Garbage
A receptacle where garbage is discarded;
She tossed the moldy bread into the garbage
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