To use an empty box, bag, bottle, jug, etc. as a receptacle for other trash before you actually throw it (and the trash) away.
Jim always got plastic bags at the grocery store so he could precycle them in his various small trash cans throughout the house.
I finished my 20 oz. carbonated beverage but still found myself overcome with thirst, so I precycled it by rinsing it and filling it with water.
I finished my 20 oz. carbonated beverage but still found myself overcome with thirst, so I precycled it by rinsing it and filling it with water.
by testicles...that is all October 10, 2009
the act of collecting cans and bottles from the recycling bin before the recycling truck takes it away. (for the deposit)
by jluv November 5, 2003
Signs at the UMBC dining hall on the tables. Shows a man holding up two cans (potentially with food in them, but one can't see the labels) staring directly at the camera/the viewer.
It supposedly means to buy things with less packaging. However, someone already invented a word for that "reduce", one of the 3 R's (the other two being reuse and recycle.)
It supposedly means to buy things with less packaging. However, someone already invented a word for that "reduce", one of the 3 R's (the other two being reuse and recycle.)
by Zeei November 20, 2006
Using empty boxes, bags, bottles, etc. to fill with garbage before actually throwing them (and the garbage) away, rather than recycling them and waiting for them to be reincarnated as a box, bag, or bottle made from recycled goods.
Clerk: "Would you like a bag?"
Customer: "Yes please. I don't really need it to carry this stuff, but I'll be precycling it because my bathroom trash can is full and consequently needs a new liner."
Clerk: "How very clever of you. Is that really a word?"
Customer: "Urban Dictionary thinks so, so... yes."
Customer: "Yes please. I don't really need it to carry this stuff, but I'll be precycling it because my bathroom trash can is full and consequently needs a new liner."
Clerk: "How very clever of you. Is that really a word?"
Customer: "Urban Dictionary thinks so, so... yes."
by testicles...that is all October 10, 2009
(verb) Removing a box's inside packaging before you're done with it in order to recycle the box or emptying a bottle into a drinking glass so that you can recycle the bottle on your city's recycle pick-up day.
variable: precycling, noun
variable: precycling, noun
by Leif Swanson September 18, 2008
The checker asked if me if I wanted paper or plastic but since I was buying a six-pack with a handle, I told him I'd rather precycle.
by jaddilac August 1, 2009
Empty boxes/bags/bottles that are used as trash receptacles before you actually throw them away, rather than waiting on the recycling process to return them to you.
Instead of needlessly buying trash bags, Michael used precycled goods in the form of grocery sacks to furnish his trash can liners.
by testicles...that is all October 10, 2009