Upcycle & recycle

Fantastic ideas to upcycle and recycle your clothes, furniture, and anything else you can get your hands on! DIY & crafts projects & ideas on fashion, home decor and gardens.
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Upcycling is Upending a World of Waste
Wow, this is really pretty. Would quite happily have this in my garden :)
Etsy Find: Upcycle With Plarn Plastic Yarn
This lovely little bracelet is made from recycled plastic bags (or Plarn = plastic yarn :) ) Useful 'how-to' video on the link.
Fence From Upcycled Bike Wheels • Recyclart
Imagine the climbing vines that could adorn your old bicycle wheel fence.
One of our favourite projects, FunkyJunk Recycled make cool fashion accessories and home goods out of recycled plastic bags, helping to clean up Cambodia and create income for local communities too.
Green Design
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.
Upcycling: Re-imagining Our Waste
Delhi 2010 was the first Commonwealth Games to upcycle event waste. Come on London 2012 - we dare you to do better!