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Garbage vs. Recycling

Difference Between Garbage and Recycling

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.
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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.
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Garbage

rubbish or waste, especially domestic refuse
a garbage dump
garbage littered the estate
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Recycling

The activity or process of extracting and reusing useful substances found in waste.
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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.
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Garbage

Refuse; trash.
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Recycling

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
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Garbage

A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded
tossed the apple core into the garbage.
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Recycling

(uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
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Garbage

Worthless or nonsensical matter; rubbish
Their advice turned out to be nothing but garbage.
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Recycling

present participle of recycle
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Garbage

Inferior or offensive literary or artistic material.
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Recycling

the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products
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Garbage

Food waste material of any kind.
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Garbage

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.
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Garbage

A place or receptacle for waste material.
He threw the newspaper into the garbage.
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Garbage

Nonsense; gibberish.
This machine translation is garbage
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Garbage

Something or someone worthless.
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Garbage

(obsolete) The bowels of an animal; refuse parts of flesh; offal.
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Garbage

An easy shot.
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Garbage

to eviscerate
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Garbage

(informal) bad, crap, shitty
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Garbage

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
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Garbage

To strip of the bowels; to clean.
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Garbage

food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
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Garbage

a worthless message
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Garbage

a receptacle where garbage is discarded;
she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage
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