16 Creative Ways to Upcycle Before You Recycle

By Queuebot in Everything Else on Apr 12, 2009 at 2:31 pm

If you’re like the most of us, what you do to your junk is just throw them in one bin. Of course, there are also these people that segregate plastics from this and that.

And then, there’s upcycling:

The recyclers are out in force. Whether it’s using a local recycle centre or a council-provided green bin, it’s never been easier to get your household waste processed back into useful raw materials. But that takes energy – and why spend that energy when this “rubbish” can be turned into something useful in its present form?

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  1. LisaL
    Apr 12th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    Lemme just take some of my old underwear I don’t use anymore and wrap a present with it! WOOT! O_O
    :P
    Seriously though… I didn’t know that about coffee grinds.. will def use that… as for the rest of it………

  2. Skipweasel
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Bah, who needs to turn a wine bottle into a wine glass when you can just guzzle it straight from the bottle?

  3. AJ
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 4:49 am

    Upcycling seems to be a hipster way of saying “reusing.”

  4. Ajan
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 6:35 am

    We need a company that recycles our crap instead of we recycling it..
    Give ‘em the used wine bottles, and cans or stuff like that.. They give it back with a zing in it ;)

  5. Morgan
    Apr 13th, 2009 at 8:12 am

    Now what can I make out of my ever so classy box of wine?

  6. evasidda
    Mar 25th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Terracycle is a company that upcycles. You can even mail them trash. http://www.terracycle.net


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