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
  • But its nonrecyclable packaging has become a big problem—for both India and Nestlé.
    — Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 5 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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