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A growing collection of Upcycling Free Eco Friendly Craft Instructions for projects emphasizing repurposing or upcycling materials. Upcycling is taking waste and making it into something that has equal or greater use or value. “Isn’t that the same as recycling?” you are probably asking yourself. As it turns out, no.

Upcycling Free Eco Friendly Craft Instructions

The term was first used by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. McDonough and Braungart compared upcycling to the “downcycling” of recycling a plastic, for example, into a lesser grade plastic. To put it simply, downcycling reduces the quality of the materials, while upcycling maintains or improves the quality of the materials.

Repurposing is using or converting for use in another format or product here is an example: You could repurpose old levis by cutting them up and making them into a durable outdoor quilt. Upcycling Free Eco Friendly Craft Instructions
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