Springwise & yiuco!!!!

Great news feed my reader this morning!
Springwisespotted yiuco!

And here is what they wrote:

“Marketplace for upcycled, recycled and reused goods.

The march of the upcycling initiatives continues! Hard on the heels of our stories about Diana Eng’s “fortune cookie” purses and Rerip’s surfboard-recycling program comes word of Yiuco, an online marketplace that focuses exclusively on products created through upcycling, recycling and reuse.

Greek Yiuco only allows items to be listed if they are upcycled, recycled or reused, allowing eco-minded minipreneurs create an individual storefront and list the goods they’d like to sell. Examples currently listed on the site include wearable rings featuring individual keys from a computer keyboard, for example, as well as a pillow crafted from upcycled materials. Shoppers can search the site by product category as well as by whether goods involve primarily upcycling, recycling or reuse. Creating a store on Yiuco is free, and there are no transaction or listing fees until spring 2011. Thereafter, Yiuco will charge vendors EUR 0.10 per listed item every three months as well as a 3.5 percent transaction fee on each sale.

Besides the obvious lustre of sustainability, of course, makers of upcycled and recycled products can also enjoy the benefits of free or inexpensive materials and an embedded story to be shared with consumers. No end in sight to the opportunities here; minipreneurs around the globe — time to get crafting”

To have a look on the original post, just click here.
Thank you Springwise!

ps: The post about Tom Binn seems to be our lucky one. Unfortunately though, the designer is only being mentioned in our blog; no products of him can be found at yiuco.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]