单词 | unrecyclable |
释义 | unrecyclableadj. That cannot be recycled. ΚΠ 1960 Trans. Amer. Nucl. Soc. 3 443/1 It is economically interesting to purify the inevitable quantity of unrecyclable scrap formed during transformation. 1991 J. Makower et al. Green Consumer Supermarket Guide i. 36 The Fort Howard Corporation..uses old magazines, phone books, Post-its, and many other types of supposedly unrecyclable paper to produce its two lines of paper towels. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 136/2 The shining, coated plastics many computers have now are cobbled from a stew of materials that are unrecyclable and expensive. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1960 |
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