upcycling

Upcycling is giving a new, more valuable purpose to an item.

Upcycling has shown significant growth across the United States.

Here is an example of modern upcycling.

Upcycling has seen an increase in use due to its current marketability and the lowered cost of reused materials.

Upcycling is the opposite of downcycling, which is the other half of the recycling process.

Since Haggar began using Repreve in 2009, the company has documented the upcycling of over 80 million water bottles.

No, they've been rebranded as the trendier sounding "precycling" and "upcycling," words that happen to look a lot like their popular counterpart.

In 2011, Garnier partnered with TerraCycle to promote upcycling of product containers and the introduction of biodegradable products.

Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

The first recorded use of the term upcycling was by Reiner Pilz of Pilz GmbH in an article by Thornton Kay of Salvo in 1994.