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UPCYCLING
When you change the way you look at things
The things you look at change
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value.
Design processes
Tonnes of wastes are produced every day in our cities, and some
educators are attempting to raise citizens' awareness,
especially the youth. To redefine the concept of recycling
previously confined to trash categorization, groups of young designers
have attempted to transform "trash" into potentially marketable products
such as backpacks made of waste plastic bags and area rugs created by
reusing hides.
Designers have begun to use both industrial textile waste and existing
clothing as the base material for creating new fashions. Upcycling has
been known to use either pre-consumer or post-consumer waste or possibly
a combination of the two. Pre-consumer waste is made while in the
factory, such as fabric remnants left over from cutting out patterns.
Post-consumer waste refers to the finished product when it’s no longer
useful to the owner, such as donated clothes.
Do you want to learn how to upcycling your clothes?
We will organize upcycling workshops very soon!
Don't miss the chance to learn how to improve your clothes and help the
planet at the same time.
Apply now to reserve a seat in our future workshops.