title: Recycling (disambiguation)
text: # Recycling (disambiguation)
  
  Recycling may refer to:
  
  ## Science
  
  * Recycling (technological) A human industrial process of shunting discarded technological artifacts into an industrial repository system that dissipates energy and employs people to manufacture and redistribute new artifacts using the old materials.
  * Recycling (ecological) Ecosystems use energy (primarily solar) to employ biodiversity working at the base of food webs to recycle mineral nutrients back into living systems.
  