What is meant by things?
"If people recycled things there wouldn’t be so much rubbish." What can I say instead of "things" and what types of things are meant?

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What is meant by things?
"If people recycled things there wouldn’t be so much rubbish." What can I say instead of "things"  and what types of things are meant?

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"Things" here refers to the items being recycled (glass, paper, and metal):
 - If people recycled more, there wouldn't be as much rubbish ("trash" in US English).
 - If people recycled more of their rubbish/trash, there wouldn't be so much of it.
 - If people recycled more of their bottles and cans, there wouldn't be so much rubbish.

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A thing is a general term for practically everything .
The above  refer to things  that can be recycled

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Things can be  wastes or solid wastes

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