Recycle is definitely grammatically correct. It's just a different word for re-use.

Infinity315 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I thought recycle was the breaking down of the device into its constituents (mostly to recover precious metals or other base materials). In contrast, reuse is where the device is kept mostly intact and used for other purposes such as this. Just breaking things down requires considerable amounts of energy through the sheer logistics of it relative to just reusing it.

	▲	account42 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		There is quite a bit of room between reusing something for its intended purpose and recycling something at the material level. TFA is at neither extreme - the phone is kept intact but it's employed for a much more limited purpose that only really uses some of the phone's components.

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Clamchop 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ironically, this is semantics, not grammar.

	▲	readthenotes1 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		How is that ironic? Since the thread is about definitions, I am surprised that we are in a situation where grammar is expected and definitions not