murf n.— «The company wants to build a materials reclamation facility (a “murf,” in waste parlance) that would allow it to mechanically sort and process vast amounts of debris. Then Potomac would mine the landfill’s contents...
preesh
v.— «Recycling of old words…“preesh” (from appreciate).» —by Marcel Danesi Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence Oct., 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Chicago way n.— «When asked how he could have pulled off such an escape, Mr. Alsammarae, who moved to Chicago in 1976 but returned to Iraq just after the invasion, laughed uproariously for 20 seconds. Then, recycling a famous line from an...
upcycle v.— «William McDonough and Michael Braungart did just that in their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press), 2003. The word they coined is “upcycling’ which is the practice of recycling...
scrapper n.— «On the streets of Kansas City, a scrapper is a person who collects scrap metal and then recycles it for cold, hard cash.» —“Copper is gold in recycling” by Steve Penn Kansas City Star (Kansas City...
hogger n.— «The charge followed the death of Kevin Arnup, a foreman at the firm, in December 2003 as an industrial paper shredder, or hogger, restarted as he tried to clear a blockage.» —“Manslaughter charge for recycling firm after...