Recycling
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Is There an Origin for the Word Recycling?
The word recycle feels like we thought of it in the nineties. Is there an origin for the word recycling that isn't just, you know, ye whatyawas is ors ony rere cycle? And so i guess my interpretation is that you pull a material out of the cycle, like when you have a coke bottle in your hand,. It is no longer being cycled, it is yours. That's how i parced that. I'm sure that's not the case, but e recycle, meaning to use material, was in 19 22. So it is a pretty recent thing. The idea of, like you have the hippias were like recycle dudes.
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