Press Release World Env Day 2024
Tamer | 5 June 2024
Upcycling In Fashion: The production process of the textile industry is complex and needs huge amounts of energy, water, polluting chemicals, among other resources. It’s very polluting to the environment and its supply chain often isn’t an ethical one. Therefore, upcycling comes as a nice solution that’s starting to be developed not only by small artisans but also starting to boom in companies like Patagonia (though more in a re-crafting concept). Damaged clothes no longer fit for wearing are “disassembled” and their textiles get to reused for the creation of some other piece of clothing or as cases, bookmarks or wherever the designer’s creativity takes them.
Upcycling Furniture: It’s about taking old, wasted or broken furniture and re-purposing it. From broken cabinets whose shelves can be screwed into an old door entry door that will work as a decoration piece, or putting some feet supports in a one-side opened bathtub and turning into a sofa: there are no limits to the power of creativity in upcycling furniture and other household items.
Industrial Upcycling: There are established manufacturing organizations reusing the waste in products that re-enter consumer cycles. Examples of this are companies like Terracycle that creates waste collection programs for waste that is impossible or difficult to recycle and ends up producing things like park benches or pencil cases or tote bags from food and drink packaging.
If we look at upcycling from a large, scale perspective, we can say that in theory, it contributes to the reduction of CO2 emissions. Not only because the lifetimes of the materials used are extended, but also because there’s, in theory, contributes ultimately to reducing carbon emissions by extending lifetimes of used materials, components and products, and spending less energy in extracting, transforming, new ones or recycling.
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