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Green’s advice on how to get from Kyoto to Tokyo? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

recycle

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'green's' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I don't understand how they can define each other.

'advice on how to get from kyoto to tokyo?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'on' could be 're' ('on' can be mean 'with reference to') and 're' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'cycle' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for recycle that I've seen before include "Behave greenly" , "Use (rubbish) again" , "Process for further use" , "Process something so it can be used again" , "be green" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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