My husband’s back up pair of glasses recently became broken beyond repair. I immediately thought how can I upcycle this into a functional item? Enter the idea of a sun catcher! Living in Texas we get a lot of sunny days so I knew immediately that we would get a...
Well, the holidays are over and I’ve been hanging onto these broken lights since last year to figure out what I can do with them?? I hate that it falls onto the consumer to figure this stuff out. A lot of recycling centers don’t have the capability for recycling the...
Give junk mail another life and upcycle it into a homemade greeting card! The first step is to eliminate junk mail, second is to upcycle it. According to the USPS 2018 annual report, USPS hauled 77+ billion pieces of junk mail across 1.4 billion miles in the USA....
Bamboo Toothbrushes According to National Geographic, in 2019 a billion plastic toothbrushes were thrown away, in the USA alone! That’s a lot of toothbrushes. It’s great that everyone is taking care of their oral health. However it’s not so great that each of those...
What is upcycling? Listed as a definition from the Oxford English Dictionary: up·cy·cle /ˈəpˌsīkəl/ verb gerund or present participle: upcycling 1. reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the...
