Precycle Edit Meaning

1.

Declining the use of a recyclable item (like a shopping bag) in lieu of an obvious alternative.

The checker asked if me if I wanted paper or plastic but since I was buying a six-pack with a handle, I told him I'd rather precycle.

See six, pack, recycle, beer, clerk

2.

(verb) Removing a box's inside packaging before you're done with it in order to recycle the box or emptying a bottle into a drinking glass so that you can recycle the bottle on your city's recycle pick-up day.

variable: precycling, noun

I just precycled the cereal box. I precycled the milk jug because I heard the recycle truck coming.

See recycle, recycling, ecology, environment

3.

Signs at the UMBC dining hall on the tables. Shows a man holding up two cans (potentially with food in them, but one can't see the labels) staring directly at the camera/the viewer.

It supposedly means to buy things with less packaging. However, someone already invented a word for that "reduce", one of the 3 R's (the other two being reuse and recycle.)

Damn, that precycling dude freaks me out.

I'll precycle you!

See reduce, recycle, umbc

4.

the act of collecting cans and bottles from the recycling bin before the recycling truck takes it away. (for the deposit)

The rustling at 6:00 AM was just the precycling going on at the back of the building.