Precycle

(verb) Removing a box's inside packaging before you're done with it in order to recycle the box or emptying a bottle into a drinking glass so that you can recycle the bottle on your city's recycle pick-up day.
variable: precycling, noun

I just precycled the cereal box. I precycled the milk jug because I heard the recycle truck coming.

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