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is upcycled
verb
To convert (waste materials etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
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In this study plastic waste is upcycled into 3-D printing filament with a recyclebot, which is an open source waste plastic extruder.
Owner Christiane has gone big on charm – most of the furniture is upcycled – and there's a large living room.
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Butternut squash seeds for oil are upcycled from waste materials from Martin Farms, in Brockport, New York.
However, a story alone isn't enough - few will buy a garment simply because it's upcycled.
This makes a great lunch or light supper, and can be kept for a day or so to be upcycled into a packed lunch.
"In a circular economy, you have hyper-local food systems that allow the nutrients in organic wastes to be upcycled back into the food chain.
Little more than a prefabricated shack, the cafe building has been upcycled from its previous incarnations as a sailors' dormitory in Plymouth and a chicken shack.
The fast-expanding Ladadika district has become a booze-drenched labyrinth of small cobbled streets and squares where tumbledown townhouses and industrial buildings are being upcycled into a whirl of slick lounges, rooftop retreats, live-music venues and trendy restaurants.
On the Oxfam partnership, for instance, Lewis cautioned: "Since this is still a re-distribution of secondhand clothing to global markets, the clothing could still end up being discarded into a landfill, just in another country, instead of being upcycled by Marks & Spencer". Reducing textile waste, of course, is a key part of the answer.
– showing that plastic can indeed be upcycled economically.
Customers have saved over $475 million by shopping thredUP instead of traditional retail, and over 28 million items have been upcycled.
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