precycle

To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.

Verb

  1. To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.
    • Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better. - 2008 October 30, Tanis Taylor, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Guardian:

Origin

From pre- + cycle, modelled on recycle.

Forms

precycles precycling precycled