recyclable waste; recyclable garbage
Refers to waste that can be recycled, such as paper, plastic, cans, and bottles, as opposed to burnable or non-burnable trash. Common in municipal waste sorting contexts.
Please put out recyclable waste every Wednesday.
Plastic bottles are sorted as recyclable waste.
I put out the empty cans and plastic bottles as recyclable waste.
Today is recycling collection day, so I bundled up the newspapers and put them out.
Glass bottles are classified as recyclable waste.