Upcycling: Re-imagining Our Waste: Upcycling Business
The concept of upcycling makes a lot of cents. Why spend money and resources on something new (expensive, wasteful) when a perfectly good alternative already exists (cheap resourceful)? While this idea spreads through the global community and indivduals begin to benefit, business has begun to see the value in the old. Everyone from green cleaning companies to fashion designers to artists and now even cell phone companies are seeing the green, in going green.
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Upcycling hits The New York Times
This article about Terra Cycle appeared on April 29, 2009 in The New York Times: ‘Upcycling’ for Not-So-Green Consumers By most accounts, a growing number of consumers appear willing to pay the...
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Close the Loop on Waste Plastics, Tires & Glass
Close the Loop was founded in 2000 with the goal to build the market for recycled products made in the USA from waste plastics, tires & glass; help people & the planet along the way. ...
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Emiliana Underware
Emiliana Knickers is a little enterprise in England turning old stretch clothing like T-shirts, dresses, or fabric samples into lovely new underpants. EmmaThese knickers are handmade at home on my domestic sewing machine and are made by...
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Garbage Moguls: Terracycle Reality Show
Reality shows are often classified as trashy TV. Now things have come full circle with a reality program focusing on--you guessed it--garbage. Garbage Moguls, premiering today on The National...
Articles
This is an interesting collaborative upcycling sculpture project that emerged out of an unusual partnership be...
Blog Posts
Every day upcycling becomes more of a viable choice for individuals to make, and companies like TerraCycle are...
News Articles
In 2007, Australian sustainability professional, Liz Franzmann, was introduced to Anita and Shalabh Ahuja from...
Resources
Wow! Here's an amazing non-profit organization and great source of waste materials in Berkley that's been flyi...
matter! is a contemporary fine art gallery featuring original artworks from over 100 artists using recycled an...
Check out this short new story on "Landfill Free Businesses" - this story focuses on a GM plant in Flint, MI t...
Here's a YouTube video about a 100% recycled pizza box that can be turned into four plates and a convenient st...
OBON is a United States based company dedicated to designing, manufacturing and distributing stationery pro...
Greenbiz.com is a great resource for those in search of sustainable business solutions....
Etsy.com is a virtual marketplace where users can buy and sell handmade (mostly upcycled) goods....
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