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Pedantry: A _reused_ Google Pixel 5. It was not broken down and reconstituted. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is in order of environmental impact, so reusing is an upg
by hamdingers 1y ago
Pedantry: A _reused_ Google Pixel 5. It was not broken down and reconstituted.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is in order of environmental impact, so reusing is an upgrade!
- treve 1y agoRecycle is definitely grammatically correct. It's just a different word for re-use.
- Clamchop 1y agoIronically, this is semantics, not grammar.
- readthenotes1 1y agoHow is that ironic? Since the thread is about definitions, I am surprised that we are in a situation where grammar is expected and definitions not
- Infinity315 1y agoI thought recycle was the breaking down of the device into its constituents (mostly to recover precious metals or other base materials). In contrast, reuse is where the device is kept mostly intact and used for other purposes such as this. Just breaking things down requires considerable amounts of energy through the sheer logistics of it relative to just reusing it.
- account42 1y agoThere is quite a bit of room between reusing something for its intended purpose and recycling something at the material level. TFA is at neither extreme - the phone is kept intact but it's employed for a much more limited purpose that only really uses some of the phone's components.
- IshKebab 1y agoNo but it was reused as a whole. "Recycle" is completely correct. Pedantry failed. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recycle#:~:text=To%20reuse%20as%20a%20whole. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recycle#:~:text=To%20reuse%20...
- robertlagrant 1y agoReused as a whole sounds like reuse.