Recycling is the present continuous form of the verb "to recycle". Scrap and commodity are nouns.
"Recycled" can be either a modifier or a past participle of the verb "to recycle". "Recycled content" (modifier) means that something made of steel is remelted and molded into something new made of steel.
Steel is rarely discarded or diverted from a landfill... But by virtue of the fact it has been remelted, it now has a "recycled content" label attached as a modifier. "I recycled the steel" means it's still a verb if the subject doing the recycling is in the sentence, but in passive voice - "the steel was recycled", it becomes "recycled content steel". Maybe I'm 6th generation steel recycler, and I've never even heard of someone throwing steel away in an incinerators or landfills. If they did I'd pay for it out of the ash, it's always been a commodity to me as a recycler. But even if I never pulled it from the ash or landfill, even if I came to your house and bought it, I've become part of a "waste management hierarchy". How come my job is being redefined as "waste management" based on someone else stupidly throwing steel away?
Here's the slippery slope which lead secondary materials into a different category from mined ore, via lingo from the point of view of rich people, applied to poor people, who are assumed to be victims.
"Recycled" can be either a modifier or a past participle of the verb "to recycle". "Recycled content" (modifier) means that something made of steel is remelted and molded into something new made of steel. Steel is rarely discarded or diverted from a landfill... But by virtue of the fact it has been remelted, it now has a "recycled content" label attached as a modifier. "I recycled the steel" means it's still a verb if the subject doing the recycling is in the sentence, but in passive voice - "the steel was recycled", it becomes "recycled content steel". Maybe I'm 6th generation steel recycler, and I've never even heard of someone throwing steel away in an incinerators or landfills. If they did I'd pay for it out of the ash, it's always been a commodity to me as a recycler. But even if I never pulled it from the ash or landfill, even if I came to your house and bought it, I've become part of a "waste management hierarchy". How come my job is being redefined as "waste management" based on someone else stupidly throwing steel away?
Here's the slippery slope which lead secondary materials into a different category from mined ore, via lingo from the point of view of rich people, applied to poor people, who are assumed to be victims.
