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  2. Upcycling - Wikipedia

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    Venice Biennale installation by MaƂgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.

  3. Reuse - Wikipedia

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    One way to address this is to increase product longevity; either by extending a product's first life or addressing issues of repair, reuse and recycling. [2] Reusing products, and therefore extending the use of that item beyond the point where it is discarded by its first user is preferable to recycling or disposal, [3] as this is the least energy intensive solution, although it is often ...

  4. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Many people are also using embroidery to creatively upcycle and repair clothing, to help counteract over-consumption and fashion industry waste. [ 16 ] Modern hand embroidery, as opposed to cross-stitching , is characterized by a more "liberal" approach, where stitches are more freely combined in unconventional ways to create various textures ...

  5. Culminating project - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the project is to increase both teaching and learning. High school graduation standards have declined for several decades. School reform or the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 [2] is a way to bring value back to the high school diploma as well as support students as they go out into the world prepared for college, a job, the military, entrepreneurship, internship, or whatever ...

  6. Waste management - Wikipedia

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    The project's main objective is to minimize the problem of indiscriminate littering which leads to land degradation and pollution of the environment. ASAZA is also at the same time helping alleviate the problems of unemployment and poverty through income generation and payment of participants, women, and unskilled youths.

  7. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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    Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]

  8. Junk Kouture - Wikipedia

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    Junk Kouture is a competition for post-primary school students – aged 13–18. Students must design and create an item of haute couture created from only recycled materials. To date, the concept of the event has involved participants showcasing their designs initially online through registration, then at Regional Finals, and finally in a ...

  9. Environmental protection - Wikipedia

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    Rapid growth in GDP has been China's main goal during the past three decades with a dominant development model of inefficient resource use and high pollution to achieve high GDP. For China to develop sustainably, environmental protection should be treated as an integral part of its economic policies.