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Garbage vs. Recycling — What's the Difference?

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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