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
Clothespins
Crea-re Studio used wooden clothespins, actually re-used wooden clothespins, in order to design these rustic lamps. The wooden lamp shades are made from a metalic cylinder frame complete with
Donna McCullough's Vintage Can Dresses
Donna McCullough is an artist who creates sculptural dresses out of upcycing. Named as "The Drill Team", all dresses are made out of gas and oil cans ,
Eloquent Shadows created from recycled newspapers
Recycled shadow' is an installation undertaken by spanish architectural team Meva. The artists fold hundreds of newspaper pages into paper windmills, which they then hang on nylon mesh
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
The rocking horse
Upcycled street art, trafic signs, tyres, handlebar and other bike parts. by Kalbut Design via