Upcycling: a fresh look at materials reuse Turning fridges into worm farms

摘要

While it's almost certain that most avid readers of this publication will have come across the concept of using discarded fridges as worm farms, I took a different perspective on what the longer term implications are of reusing such waste materials. In the book, Cradle to Cradle, the authors Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose the concept of 'upcycling', whereby a product, or the materials it's made from, can be infinitely reused or recycled into other forms, with no loss of energy in the transition of forms and no release of environmentally harmful by-products.