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recycling

process using materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials
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Summary

recycling is a type of process[1]. recycling draws 5,774 Wikipedia views per month (type of process category, ranking #9 of 47).[2]

Key Facts

  • Follows: service retirement[3]
  • Subclass of: waste management process[4], environmental protection[5], process[6]
  • Part of: waste management[7], circular economy[8], aquaponics[9], European waste hierarchy[10], industrial sector[11]
  • Has use: climate change mitigation[12]
  • Commons category: Recycling[13]
  • Industry: recycling industry[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Recycling[15]
  • Product or material produced: recycled material[16]
  • Topic has template: Template:Recycling[17]
  • Different from: downcycling[18], upcycling[19], materials recovery[20], circular economy[21]
  • Uses: materials recovery facility[22]
  • Practiced by: Rag-picker[23]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24]

Why It Matters

recycling has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] recycling is known by 147 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Befesa environmental protection InfraBuild Recycling

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . drawdown.org. drawdown.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . ellenmacarthurfoundation.org. ellenmacarthurfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_recycling_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{recycling}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/recycling}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 94
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bar', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv'
    Environment ontology id → 01000741
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Environment ontology id: 01000741, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143355346|recycling process (#143355346)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environm"
  2. 26d ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → kierratys
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14864: kierratys, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789688721844"
  3. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19056
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C19056, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → recycling, recycling-waste, recycling-waste-etc
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: recycling, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289953842|recycling (#289953842)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3oWnbv, 1KPv5g, 2ADwQ0 +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → climate change mitigation
    Part of → waste management, circular economy, aquaponics +2
    Product → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 5268, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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