Application-tailored object re-use and recycling

In one embodiment, a computing device receives receive a request for particular content associated with an application. The device may determine, based on a first recycling policy associated with a first recycler, that the first recycler associated with the application includes a display object that is capable of being used for containing the particular content. The device may encapsulate the display object with the particular content in a wrapper object and return the wrapper object encapsulating the display object in response to the request. The device may receive an indication that the display object is no longer needed, and extract the display object from the wrapper object. The display object may be stored in the first recycler. The wrapper object without the display object may be disposed in accordance with a second recycling policy associated with a second recycler associated with an operating system of the computing device.