YIUCO
All about upcycling
Yiuco is the place where we develop, ideas and actions concerning the exploitation, upgrading of transformation of “useless” or waste materials and products into new materials or products of better quality or better environmental value. This is Upcycling, a cyclical economy, is the effort to minimize losses by closing the circle of materials and energy.
Is achieved through long lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse and remanufacturing. Creates jobs, saves resources, prevents waste and protects the environment.
Our goal is to inform, educate and organize actions with your participation. To think, design and create new, longer-lasting products that will be recycled more easily and reused instead of ending up as waste.
Expert advice and in-depth features for upcycling
The Book Igloo
Who said that we need bookcases anymore? Get creative with your books. Need an inspiration? Do you love reading books and you already have collected so many that you
This is upcycling! Washing machine drums into art installation
"A Midsummer Night’s Dream" is lighting up Portugal’s São João de Deus Street, for the sake of 2016 Saint Peter Festival. Teatro Metaphora, a Madeira-based NGO collected over a hundred landfill-bound washing
Domesticated does
Artist and designer Beck Wheeler combines toy making, textile and woodworking techniques to make colorful, playful found object sculptures. Wheeler is using used objects like broken childrens toys,
Wastelandscape
French architect Clémence Eliard and artist Elise Morin created this CD Wasteland instalation. The designers used over 65,000 recycled CDs and form the 500sq.m Wastelandscape art installation at
The Colorfoul Giants
"Os Gemeos"; this is how twin brothers artists from Brazil are known together. Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, brought colorfoul life into six industrial silos on Granville Island in Vancouver.