Quotes About Upcycling

I love all things crafty. I love to make jewelry. I love to cut up old clothes and turn them into something new. I love projects like transforming a busted table into a shiny new table. I'm really into restoration and little side projects.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash.

In the Togolese capital of Lomé, architect Sénamé Agbodjinou and colleagues set up Woelab in 2012, a 'low-high tech' workshop making its own design of open-source 3D printers using the component parts of defunct computers, printers and scanners that have been dumped in West Africa.

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.