Kierrätettyä

Kierrätettyä is the partitive singular form of the Finnish past passive participle kierrätetty, derived from the verb kierrättää, meaning to recycle. It functions as an adjective describing something that has undergone recycling.

In Finnish, kierrätettyä is used when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case, which is common with mass nouns, materials or indefinite quantities. For example, kierrätettyä muovia means recycled plastic, and kierrätettyä lasia means recycled glass. The form appears in phrases such as kierrätettyä paperia (recycled paper) or kierrätettyä metallia (recycled metal).

The base participle kierrätetty can also appear in other cases or with different endings, but kierrätettyä is specifically the partitive singular form. In everyday language and product labeling, kierrätettyä is widely used to indicate recycled content, often alongside a material type or quantity, for instance kierrätettyä materiaalia or kierrätettyä muovia.

Grammatically, kierrätettyä agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case, though the exact ending depends on the syntactic role of the noun. The term reflects Finland’s emphasis on recycling and sustainability, a theme common in packaging regulations and environmental communications.