Tag: upcycling

Recycling and upcycling are extremely important because they are helping in reducing the pollution of our environment. Besides this, recycling and upcycling can bring economic benefits to our economy. By recycling we are stopping the making of new landfills, we …

From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkins: Sustainable Designs–Reduce, Upcycle, Recycle Read More »

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The disposable nature of our society is perhaps at its worst when the festive season rolls around. Halloween is the most pressing example of people buying a lot of expensive, environmentally harmful products, using them for a few days, and …

From Guest Blogger Izzie: Eco-Friendly Halloween Decorations Read More »

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Somewhere around five billion plastic bags are used each year around the globe. Plastic materials are products that have made our busy on the go lives much easier and we have become dependent on them.  As quickly as they appear in …

From Guest Blogger Damian: Plastic Materials and Our Environment–What We Can Do Better Read More »

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We all want to improve our green credentials and one of the key ways we can do this is by preventing items, which still have valuable life, ending up in landfill. We are moving away from being a throwaway society …

From Guest Blogger James Timpton: The Upcycling Effect at Home Read More »

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Ever hear of upcycling?  It’s a term coined by a professor of a German university in the 1990s, meaning the repurposing of material that is deemed to be worthless, and adding value to create a product that can now enjoy a …

Looptworks — Making Upcycling Work in a Big Way Read More »

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