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Recycling vs Reusing - What's the difference?

recycling | reusing |

As nouns the difference between recycling and reusing

is that recycling is the practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use while reusing is reuse.

As verbs the difference between recycling and reusing

is that recycling is present participle of lang=en while reusing is present participle of lang=en.

recycling

English

(wikipedia recycling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
  • (uncountable) Those materials culled for recycling.
    • He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.

    Verb

    (head)

    • reusing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • reuse
  • * 2013 , Milton D. Hakel, Beyond Multiple Choice (page 19)
    • Science tests that have been developed often involve, for reasons of economics, inexpensive materials that do not survive many reusings