upcycle
The practice of recycling waste materials for use in higher
value products, such as turning beer bottlesinto building
materials, or old lumber into furniture; different from
normal recycling (remanufactured wastes back into the same
product over and over) or downcycling (putting toxins into
landfills)
value products, such as turning beer bottlesinto building
materials, or old lumber into furniture; different from
normal recycling (remanufactured wastes back into the same
product over and over) or downcycling (putting toxins into
landfills)
Origin: : Term coined in "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things" by William McDough and Michael Braungart, 2002.
2002