يعيد المتطوع تدوير النفايات الورقية من نقطة التجمع.

Because Arabic often uses verb–subject–object order, especially in Modern Standard Arabic.

So:

• يعيد = recycles / re-does
• المتطوع = the volunteer

This verb-first order is very normal in Arabic.

You could also say:

• المتطوع يعيد تدوير النفايات الورقية...

That is also correct, but it puts a bit more emphasis on the volunteer.

يعيد تدوير is the standard way to say recycles or recycles something.

Literally:

• يعيد = he repeats / he does again / he returns
• تدوير = circulating / turning / recycling

Together, يعيد تدوير means to recycle.

So Arabic uses a two-word expression here, where English often uses the single verb recycle.

Not exactly. تدوير is a verbal noun (called a maṣdar in Arabic), not a finite verb.

In this sentence:

• يعيد is the actual conjugated verb
• تدوير is a verbal noun meaning something like recycling

So the structure is roughly:

• يعيد تدوير... = he does the recycling of... = he recycles...

This is a very common Arabic pattern.

المتطوع means the volunteer.

It comes from the root related to volunteering or doing something willingly. In grammar terms, it is an active participle used as a noun.

So:

• متطوع = volunteer
• المتطوع = the volunteer

The الـ at the beginning is the definite article, meaning the.

النفايات means the waste or the trash, and it is a plural word.

Singular:

• نفاية = a piece of waste / refuse

Plural:

• نفايات = waste / trash / wastes

In practice, English often uses waste as an uncountable noun, but Arabic commonly uses the plural نفايات.

So النفايات الورقية means paper waste.

This is a very common Arabic grammar point.

النفايات is a non-human plural. In Modern Standard Arabic, non-human plurals usually take a feminine singular adjective.

So:

• النفايات = plural
• الورقية = feminine singular adjective

Even though this may feel strange to an English speaker, it is exactly what Arabic normally does.

So:

• النفايات الورقية = paper waste

not because the waste is singular, but because non-human plurals are treated grammatically like feminine singular for agreement.

Because adjectives in Arabic normally match the noun in definiteness.

Here:

• النفايات = definite (the waste)
• so the adjective must also be definite:
• الورقية = the paper / paper-related

So Arabic says:

• النفايات الورقية

with الـ on both words.

If the noun were indefinite, the adjective would also be indefinite.

It means from the collection point or from the gathering point.

Word by word:

• من = from
• نقطة = point
• التجمع = the gathering / the collection / the assembly

In context, نقطة التجمع is best understood as the collection point.

So the phrase tells you the source location: the volunteer recycles the paper waste from the collection point.

Because this is an iḍāfa construction, often called a possessive or genitive construction.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun can be definite

So:

• نقطة التجمع = literally point of the gathering/collection

This whole phrase is definite because التجمع is definite.

That is why it means:

• the collection point

not just a collection point.

With full vowel endings, the sentence would be:

• يُعيدُ المتطوِّعُ تدويرَ النفاياتِ الورقيَّةِ من نقطةِ التجمُّعِ

A simplified breakdown:

• يُعيدُ — nominative/indicative ending on the verb
• المتطوِّعُ — subject, so nominative
• تدويرَ — object of يعيد, so accusative
• النفاياتِ — genitive because it is linked to تدوير in an iḍāfa-like structure
• الورقيَّةِ — genitive, matching النفايات
• نقطةِ — genitive after من
• التجمُّعِ — genitive as the second term of the iḍāfa

In normal everyday writing, these endings are usually not written.

Semantically, yes: it is the thing being recycled.

But grammatically, the structure is a little more detailed:

• يعيد takes تدوير as its object
• then النفايات الورقية is linked to تدوير

So literally the structure is closer to:

• the volunteer repeats/does the recycling of the paper waste

But in normal translation and understanding, it is perfectly fine to think of:

• paper waste as the thing being recycled

That is probably the most useful way for a learner to understand it.

Usually, no.

By itself, يعيد more often means something like:

• he repeats
• he returns
• he does again

To express recycle, Arabic normally uses:

• يعيد تدوير

So if you remove تدوير, the meaning changes.

A helpful pronunciation guide is:

• yuʿīdu l-mutaṭawwiʿu tadwīra n-nifāyāti l-waraqiyyati min nuqṭati t-tajammuʿ

A few notes:

• ع in يعيد and التجمع is a consonant English does not have
• ط in المتطوع is an emphatic t
• ورقية sounds roughly like waraqiyya

If you want a slower chunking:

• yuʿīdu
• al-mutaṭawwiʿu
• tadwīra
• an-nifāyāti
• al-waraqiyyati
• min
• nuqṭati
• at-tajammuʿ

Yes. Arabic word order is fairly flexible.

For example, you could also say:

• يعيد المتطوع تدوير النفايات الورقية من نقطة التجمع
• من نقطة التجمع يعيد المتطوع تدوير النفايات الورقية

The original version is the most neutral and straightforward. Moving من نقطة التجمع earlier gives it more emphasis, as if you are highlighting the place first.