recycling noun3 •The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use. •Those materials culled for recycling.He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday. •(figurative) Something made by recycling something else.Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy." — 1990 formsrecyclings