Recycle vs. Reclaim

Recycleverb

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

Recycleverb

(transitive) To reuse as a whole.

Recycleverb

(transitive) To collect or place in a bin for recycling.

Recycleverb

To be recycled.

Recyclenoun

An act of recycling.

Recycleverb

cause to repeat a cycle

Recycleverb

use again after processing;

Reclaimverb

(transitive) To return land to a suitable condition for use.

Reclaimverb

(transitive) To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.

Reclaimverb

(transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

Reclaimverb

To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.

Reclaimverb

To tame or domesticate a wild animal.

Reclaimverb

To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

Reclaimverb

To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

Reclaimverb

To draw back; to give way.

Reclaimverb

To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.

Reclaimnoun

The calling back of a hawk.

Reclaimnoun

(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.

Reclaimnoun

An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

Reclaimverb

To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

Reclaimverb

To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

Reclaimverb

To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

Reclaimverb

To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; - said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.

Reclaimverb

Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.

Reclaimverb

To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

Reclaimverb

To correct; to reform; - said of things.

Reclaimverb

To exclaim against; to gainsay.

Reclaimverb

To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.

Reclaimverb

To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

Reclaimverb

To draw back; to give way.

Reclaimnoun

The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

Reclaimverb

claim back

Reclaimverb

of materials from waste products

Reclaimverb

bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;

Reclaimverb

make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state;

Reclaimverb

overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable;