Is it redundant or just dundant?
It seems to me the word cycle would work just fine in most cases.
I’d consider the first round of manufacturing for a product to be the 1st cycle. After that, you recycle it back through the process.
But a cycle can not have one step.
Unless it’s a unicycle.
My unicycle has no steps
Ree… cy… kull?
I’m afraid i’m not familiar with the term, you adorable ragamuffin.
To obfuscate: how many cycles in a recycle?
Is it binary?
I’m probably being whooshed, but anyway…
I think John Mace got it right. The material goes through the “cycle” of being grown/mined/produced, manufactured into a product, sold, used, and discarded. “Recycling” means taking something from the end of this cycle and putting it through another cycle.
All part of the cycle.