recycling bin
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- noun
- /rɪˈsaɪklɪŋ bɪn/
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contenedor de reciclaje
- You should always place your empty bottles in the recycling bin to help reduce waste.
- a blue recycling bin
- bottles into a recycling bin
I'm going to toss it in the recycling bin.
- I'm going to toss it in the recycling bin.
- Maybe the amount of these that have gone to the recycling bin could probably create a forest.
- I I checked the mailbox and I walked straight from the mailbox to the recycle bin because everything that was sent was junk.
- So I guess they're trying to cut down on plastic recycling bins.
Examples
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The city furnished us with a recycling bin, along with a calendar of when they picked it up.
Blog text (27) -
Through a grant from the state's Recycling Fund, every residence received 19-gallon blue recycling bins and door-hangers.
Academic text (1999) -
Well, there should be a recycling bin there.
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You better put that in the recycling bin.
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The resort does not provide recycling bins for the guest rooms.
Academic text (1995) -
Grand Canyon National Park has separate recycling bins for glass, aluminum, metal, and plastic.
Academic text (2001) -
We loaded up the wagon with the cans from the recycling bin and walked them over to the nearby park.
Fiction book (1994) -
The fairgrounds were home to new recycling bins for public patrons of the fair this year.
Academic text (2001) -
I was able to be ruthless, dumping most of the notes into the recycling bin.
Blog text (13) -
At competition venues, spectators and athletes were placing about 75 percent of cans and bottles into blue recycling bins.
Academic text (1996)
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Morphology
The meaning 'a container used for collecting items that are to be recycled' is directly and transparently derived from 'recycling' (the process of reusing materials) modifying 'bin' (a container). This simple noun–noun compound follows common composition patterns and would be immediately understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name recycling bin comes from a clear picture: a bin where people put things for recycling, meaning making old things into new ones. So, recycling bin means 'a container used to collect items that will be recycled'.