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Upcycle 2018-04-30T14:31:59+00:00

Upcycle  Explained

A beginners guide to start upcycling

Upcycling (unlike recycling) is the practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value, leading to a higher material and energy benefits.

Upcycling, also known as creative reuse.

Reuse is to use an item more than once. This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a new function.

In waste heriarchy Upcycling is between reuse and recycling , because is consumed less energy than recycling.

Creation or modification of a product from used materials, components or products which is of equal or higher quality or value than the compositional elements

(Sung, Cooper & Kettley 2014,Sung 2017).

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The lilliputian lamp

How can a lamp made out of 20,273,260 dentist cups be a Lilliputian one? Well, quite easily. The Liliputian lamp is a fine example of upcycling. Or else

Dead Media By Noah Scalin.

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Persona

Persona, the new project between art and fashion by Jeffrey Wang, recycles Levi's into sculptures to wear. Wang, founder and director of the creative platform Blanq World, manages

Its getting CLOUDy

The artist Caitlind Brown created CLOUD, a large-scale interactive installation for the arts festival Nuit Blanche in Calgary. The installation was made out of 6,000 donated burnt out

Rafinesse & tristesse

Some people may view an empty olive tin as trash. For Petra Schultz and Karin Yilmaz-Eggerempty olive tins was the inspiration to start “rafinesse & tristesse” in 2006.

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