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For Greenducation
June 29, 2018
UP Integrated School Auditorium
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
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 Upcycle This, Philippines
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 What do you know about
Upcycling?
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 What do you want to
know about Upcycling?
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 Upcycling
  Opposite of

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Downcycling
(upcycling and

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downcycling are two
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ways of recycling)
  “Resurrecting” old
stuff, and adding
more value to them
 Other taglines attributed to
Upcycling
  Waste to Wonderfulness
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  Junk to Joy D U C
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Trash to Treasure
Upcraft – upcycle and
crafting combined; creative
artists who happen to be earth warriors use
this term.
 How did Upcycling come
 
about?
Upcycling is a concept
incorporated in the book by

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German chemist Michael
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Branungart and American
Designer William

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McDonough in their book,

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“Cradle to Cradle: Remaking
The Way We Make Things.

  Upcycling is the title of the

German edition of a book
first published in English by
Gunter Pauli under the title
“Upsizing”
   Michael Braungart and William
McDonough emphasize that
upcycling isAtoTprevent
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our stuff and
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Preusing
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there’s no need to buy
more new things.
 Upcycling aims to:
  Alter consumer attitudes •  Reusing things that
we have reduces the
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by reusing what we have

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instead of accumulating
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consumption of raw

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a lot more stuff.
materials when
creating new

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use energy. Air
pollution and water
pollution can be
minimized if we
have the habit to
reuse stuff (at least
in our little way).
 What is the difference
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between downcycling and

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upcycling?
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  Both are two ways of recycling.
 Downcycling

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 Downcycling
Downcycling involves breaking down products, and converting
them into other products.
“Conversion of material from one or more products into a new

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product, involving a change in the inherent properties of the

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material itself (often a degradation in quality).” Also known as
open loop recycling. It may delay the landfill, but this system

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does not eliminate plastics.

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Downcycling is done a processing plant.
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No additional raw materials used to convert a product into
another one (from quality paper to tissue paper; aluminum
soda cans), still energy is used up.
“Downcyling is converting valuable products into low-value
raw materials”
 Upcycling

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Picture from the Net
 Upcycling

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Picture from the Net

 Upcycled neckties by
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 Upcycling Downcycling

Give life to old products Downcycling involves breaking

down products, and converting
them into other products.

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Original form the product is
maintained. T-shirt yarn,
“Conversion of material from one
or more products into a new

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product, involving a change in the

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bottles.
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Encourages consumers to
close the recycling loop
through the ff: attitudes:
reuse, and purchase
products made from recycled
ones as well
itself (often a degradation in
quality).”
Also known as open loop
recycling. It may delay the landfill,
but this system does not eliminate
plastics.
 Upcycling (cont’d) Downcycling (cont’d)
Can be a DIY activity – Downcycling is done at
reusing old, common
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a processing plant.
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household items.
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“It is converting low
value materialsP intoO S E S O N
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value products.”
high converting valuable
products into low-value
raw materials”
 Question:
  Is Upcycling system the answer to all our trash?

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 Remember the 5R model:

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 Precycling Advanced
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  “Unsung cousin” of recycling
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  “Practice of consuming while
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  “preventive medicine for the
landfills”
  Encourages mindful consumerism
•  What is upcycling? Give
2 definitions.
•  How is upcycling
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different from
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downcycling? Give 3

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•  What are the 5Rs?
•  What is precycling?
What does it
encourage?
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