How to Use nonrecyclable in a Sentence

nonrecyclable

adjective

• Is the trash the only option for my nonrecyclable and noncompostable items?
  — Jenna Pelletier, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2021
• New York introduced a bill in May to eliminate the three arrows from any nonrecyclable item.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2021
• The bills were designed to phase out some of the most commonly nonrecyclable plastics: flimsy single-use packaging and items such as cups and utensils.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 12 Sep. 2020
• In a memo to staff this month, the firm asked its Americas employees to bring their own mugs to work saying the region consumes more than eight million nonrecyclable cups each year.
  — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
• But its nonrecyclable packaging has become a big problem—for both India and Nestlé.
  — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 5 July 2019
• Every poll worker in Hardin County is receiving gloves, masks and face shields, and as much as possible, is using nonrecyclable items.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 3 Nov. 2020
• The study noted that the contamination rate -- the amount of nonrecyclable material mixed in with the recyclable material -- is about 28% for the region.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2021
• Around 7 to 8 percent of the material brought to Eureka’s facility does not end up being recycled because the items are nonrecyclable or are missed by the machines.
  — Natalie Rademacher, Twin Cities, 9 Dec. 2019
• Recycling guidelines vary from community to community, and tossing in nonrecyclable items can mean even the appropriate ones get taken to a landfill.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• Asos said that, in addition to a collection system, their design team would be trained in circular design, and nonrecyclable materials would be eradicated.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 18 Jan. 2018
• What with excess and nonrecyclable packaging as well as ingredients that endanger ecosystems, there’s room for improvement in all beauty categories: skin care, hair care, makeup, and fragrance.
  — Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 23 Mar. 2021
• To some environmentalists, Starbucks’ rollout of reusable cups seems far too tentative given the global plastics crisis; the company’s paper cups are plastic-lined, making most of them nonrecyclable.
  — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 22 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024