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    Upcycling is a greener form of recycling that converts waste into new products of higher quality and environmental value. It involves transforming discarded materials into new materials without using additional resources or energy for processing. This is more sustainable than traditional recycling which produces lower quality materials and increases carbon emissions. Upcycling reduces waste sent to landfills that contribute to climate change. Examples of upcycling include turning plastic bottles into jewelry, desk organizers, coin purses, and solar lights to illuminate areas without electricity.

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    Upcycling is a greener form of recycling that converts waste into new products of higher quality and environmental value. It involves transforming discarded materials into new materials without using additional resources or energy for processing. This is more sustainable than traditional recycling which produces lower quality materials and increases carbon emissions. Upcycling reduces waste sent to landfills that contribute to climate change. Examples of upcycling include turning plastic bottles into jewelry, desk organizers, coin purses, and solar lights to illuminate areas without electricity.

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    Up Cycling

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    Upcycling is a greener form of recycling that converts waste into new products of higher quality and environmental value. It involves transforming discarded materials into new materials without using additional resources or energy for processing. This is more sustainable than traditional recycling which produces lower quality materials and increases carbon emissions. Upcycling reduces waste sent to landfills that contribute to climate change. Examples of upcycling include turning plastic bottles into jewelry, desk organizers, coin purses, and solar lights to illuminate areas without electricity.

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    UPCYCLING

    CONTENT

    What?

    UPCLYCLING

    Why?
    How?

    UPCYCLING

    What is Upcycling?

    the new recycling greener way of recycling The process of converting waste into new products of better quality or a higher environmental value

    | What | Why | How |

    William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. compared upcycling to the "downcycling" of recycling

    Recycling often is NOT really recycling but Downcycling !!!

    UPCLYCLING
    converting wastes into new materials of higher quality

    VS

    DOWNCLYCLING
    converting wastes into new materials of lesser quality

    | What | Why | How |

    Why Upcycling?

    more environmentally friendly than recycling

    RECYCLING increases carbon emissions requires energy and resources to collect, sort and

    process unwanted items and waste

    UPCYCLING no energy and resources required more carbon efficient Waste arent going to landfill sites, which

    contributes to climate change.

    | What | Why | How |

    Less waste produced prevent wasting potentially useful materials by making use of existing ones reduces the consumption of new raw materials when creating new products.

    Upcycling

    The waste hierarchy chart


    | What | Why | How |

    How to Upcycling?

    A plastic bottle
    | What | Why | How |

    Upcycled Snack Bags

    plastic bottle cap


    | What | Why | How |

    Jewellery

    necklaces, earring, rings

    Body of plastic bottle


    | What | Why | How |

    Desk Organizers

    coin purses

    Bottom part of plastic bottle


    | What | Why | How |

    Whole plastic bottle

    Waste Bottles Turn Into Building Material for EcoARK exhibition house, Taipei

    | What | Why | How |

    How to upcycling a plastic bottle to a solar bottle bulb?


    | What | Why | How |

    | What | Why | How |

    A litre of light, illuminates the Philippines

    It began as a sustainable technology project for a group of students, but now the solar bottle bulb is brightening the darkest corners of the world.
    | What | Why | How |

    A litre of light, illuminates the Philippines

    It began as a sustainable technology project for a group of students, but now the solar bottle bulb is brightening the darkest corners of the world.
    | What | Why | How |

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