Precycled vs Recycled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between precycled and recycled

is that precycled is past tense of precycle while recycled is past tense of recycle.

that has been through a recycling process.

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(precycle)

(precycl) (wikipedia precycle)

To avoid the need to recycle by not using prepackaging, for example.

* 2008 30 Oct. Waste Not, Want Not , by Tanis Taylor, in

Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.

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(recycle)

(en adjective)

That has been through a recycling process.

This cardboard is made from recycled paper

* unrecycled