Is "recyclist" a word?

If you are a person who avidly recycles, are you a recyclist?

Solution 1:

Apart from deliberately quirky usage, I think not. You'd be a recycler.

Things can always change, but I don't think there's really a case for accepting recyclist as a valid English word just yet.

Solution 2:

It doesn't even show in the NGram Viewer but there's at least 77 books that mention "recyclist"

Solution 3:

The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) classifies it as rare (and maybe it means something else too, but I'm not sure from the definition given), while the OALD and the NOAD don't even mention it.

The word you're looking for is recycler, which doesn't appear in the OALD, but on the NOAD it's given as a derivative word from Recycle and on the OED "One who or that which recycles (waste products, etc.)."