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The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions that high school students have about the concept of recycling and the meaning it gives to these perceptions through metaphors. The study included 36 students studying in the 8th grade of a high school in a city centre in the east. The study was carried out according to the phenomenological pattern of the quality research patterns. The research data was obtained by the students completing the phrase "Re-conversion is like .../like; because ...". The students were also asked where they heard the concept of recovery and what feelings they aroused in them. In the analysis of data, the content analysis technique is used. According to the results of the study, it was determined that students presented a total of 24 metaphors for the concept of recycling. According to these metaphors, the perceptions that students have about the concept of "reconversion" are grouped into four different categories. These are the categories "in terms of recovery", "in terms of sustainability", "in terms of benefit to nature" and "in terms of need". As a result, the study once again revealed that the students are aware of the structural and functional characteristics of the concept of recycling, the metaphors are the tools to be used in the field of education.