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.

Verb

(remanufactur)

To make a system or subsystem that meets the standards of one newly manufactured by disassembling a used one, cleaning, inspecting, replacing worn and defective parts, and reassembling.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 7, author=Keith Bradsher, title=Chinese Auto Parts Enter the Global Market, work=New York Times citation

, passage=But used starters and alternators are still remanufactured in the United States, reusing the costly copper wiring in each device and selling them in the $1.5 billion market for replacement starters and alternators. }}