What is the difference between upcycling and recycling? Recycling is "an industrial process through which a residue is transformed into a new material and is used for the production of new objects...the material or object loses its original form." |
Upcycling is "reworking, reinventing, trying to see new forms within the already existing ones without losing the original touch that identifies them...The beauty of upcycling is that the original object can still be clearly identified after assuming its new function. It is a kind of tribute, a praise and splendor of what the object once used to be." |