如今,环保,低碳,节能,绿色等词越来越多地被人们频繁提到。人们在选择日常用品的时候,也会注意到该物品是否是可回收利用的。“回收”这个词叫做“recycle”,但是大家知道“upcycle”是什么意思吗?
我们来看维基百科中的解释:
Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.
那recycly和upcycly到底有什么区别?
我们知道,recycle是将材料完全分解,制成完全不一样的物品,这其中当然也涉及到能源消耗啦。
相较而言,upcycle则是“using something in a new way without doing anything to reprocess the material it's made from(换一种方式使用这样物品,而不对它进行任何原材料的改造)”。这样是不是更加节省能源呢?
我们生活中upcycle的例子也很多,比如说:
Take an old shirt that someone won't wear just because they've dropped a tiny bit of balsamic vinegar on it, printing over the top of it and perhaps cutting into it to make it fit with current trends.
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