The term “repurposed materials” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to resources that have been recycled or reused for a different purpose. For example, "This school is undergoing green renovations by using repurposed materials such as recycled paint and furniture."
A set of delicate, porcelainlike Japanese dishes turns out to be a line of disposable paper tableware made of repurposed materials.
● The zoo will celebrate World Oceans Day a few days later, on June 11, with crafts and additional art displays made from repurposed materials.
Anyone expecting a monotonous onslaught of sound may be surprised by the timbral variety that Schick can draw from his percussion battery, which ranges from drums, gongs, bells, and mallet instruments to brake drums, flowerpots, and other repurposed materials.
They slaved for hours on costumes made from creatively repurposed materials, like red Arbeiter flags; they smoked peace pipes, sparked fires with flint, and performed ritualistic dances to the bang of drums.
Some pieces are antique, or at least retro (check out Mad Men-era bracelets that spell out names such as Peggy and Marilyn), while others are handmade from repurposed materials.
During renovations, the owners used vintage and repurposed materials from such varied sources as a 1920s dance hall, estate sales, and a barn they dismantled when they bought the property.
Both deal with repurposed material, folded into larger questions of identity, history, culture and the cult of self.
It consists of four shotgun houses on wheels, made from repurposed material and designed by the Chicago artist Theaster Gates.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia publishes two to four special issues a year, which each carry about 60 percent original material and 40 percent repurposed material, a company spokesman said.
Mr. Wampach in a way did just that as he repurposed material associated with these artistic traditions and created distance from it by recontextualizing it so viewers would be forced to re-examine their habitual responses.
Jill Sigman, a performance artist who has had work exhibited internationally, told me about her ongoing Hut Project, a series of site-specific huts built of local repurposed material and refuse.
