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Recycle vs Demanufacture - What's the difference?

recycle | demanufacture |

As verbs the difference between recycle and demanufacture

is that recycle is to break down and reuse component materials while demanufacture is to recycle material using this process.

As a noun demanufacture is

a process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.

recycle

English

Verb

(Recycling) (recycl)
  • To break down and reuse component materials.
  • Recycled paper.
    Recycled plastic.
  • To reuse as a whole.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
  • To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
  • (ergative) To be recycled.
  • Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.

    Derived terms

    * recyclable * recyclability * recycle bin

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "recycle") ----

    demanufacture

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A process of recycling that involves the dismantling and/or disassembly of an item to gain the maximum amount of recyclable materials.
  • :The Parties define the life cycle of electronic equipment broadly to include acquisition, design, manufacture, assembly, distribution, use, reuse, demanufacture , and recycling. (from the Sustainable Environmental Stewardship of Federal Electronic Assets" PDF signed 11-15-2004)
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  • See also

    *decommissioning *disassembly *recycling *salvage *scrap

    Verb

    (demanufactur)
  • To recycle material using this process
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  • Derived terms

    *demanufacturer

    References

    *http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/demanufacture *http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=9&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ofee.gov%2Ffinalmou.pdf&ei=sDaESvzxEY-CtgeH89ivCg&usg=AFQjCNGmSlbKdmA7Gz_xoO_BdwiCArk1eg&sig2=8cikqM7IFbW6NQnLRb3QZQ