recycelt

Recycelt is a Dutch verb form derived from the verb recycelen, meaning to recycle. It is the present tense form used for jij recycelt and hij/zij/het recycelt, and appears in sentences such as jij recycelt plastic or hij recycelt glas. In everyday language, recycelt also functions as an attributive adjective, describing materials or products that have undergone recycling, for example recycelt materiaal.

In grammar, the full paradigm of recycelen includes other tense forms and the past participle. The common past participle is gerecyceld, used with auxiliary hebben in perfect tenses, as in Het materiaal is gerecyceld. When used as a standalone adjective before a noun, the word recycelt is frequently used in marketing and labeling to indicate recycled content, as in recycelt materiaal. This usage is widespread in Dutch-speaking contexts, especially in sustainability and waste-management discourse.

Etymology and usage context: recycelen is a loanword from English recycle, adapted into Dutch. Recycelt appears both in normal prose to denote active recycling and on product labels to signal recycled content. Its use reflects broader trends in environmental policy, corporate sustainability reporting, and circular-economy discussions in the Netherlands and Flanders.

See also: Recycling, sustainability, Dutch language, waste management, circular economy.