upcycle

Example Sentences

• "Recycling in many cases means "downcycling" – in particular cases, however, it can also mean "upcycling"."
• "As I child I made thins from "nothing." If I didn't have any store-bought materials, I would go to my closet and cut up my least favorite article of clothing and make something new with it. It just made sense to use, reuse, upcycle and make things from scratch."
• "For Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle, which collects used plastic bags, juice pouches, cookie wrappers and other items that cannot be recycled and ‘upcycles’ or morphs them into items such as messenger bags, tote bags, and pencil cases, trash is a raw material and the key to a multimillion-dollar, ecocapitalist (ad)venture[…]."
• "[…] PFNC takes empty shipping containers that are too expensive to recycle or ship back empty to China and converts them into affordable, stackable homes for Mexican workers. […] PFNC makes enough money to continue upcycling shipping containers costs and to invest for future growth."
• "Electronic waste—or ewaste—has provided a business opportunity for certain companies, which disassemble old computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, and other electronic equipment that they obtain from businesses and individuals[…]. These ecycling businesses reclaim the glass from monitors, plastics from casings, and metal from wires and circuit boards and ship the components to manufacturers that upcycle the materials. (Upcycling is a type of recycling that takes discarded materials and makes a new product with a value higher than that of the original materials.)"
• "Upcycling requires that innovation be integrated with sustainable product development. Several innovative products can be manufactured by upcycling the unrecyclable wastes, such as plastic rejects from municipal solid waste. Such products include bricks, interlocks, manhole covers, table toppings, and road ramps[…]."