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Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata 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.
A specific subgenre of found objects is known as trash art or junk art. [19] These works primarily comprise components that have been discarded. Often they come quite literally from the trash. One example of trash art is trashion, fashion made from trash. Marina DeBris takes trash from the beach and creates dresses, vests, and other clothes ...
Junk Drawer Junk Most houses have a designated drawer filled with miscellaneous items, ranging from old cell phones to stray pens and pencils. "Usually, this is the space where everything without ...
In the West Riding of Yorkshire, rag and bone men would collect waste woollen and rag products from householders to sell on to the Shoddy factories. 'Shoddy', cloth made from recycled wool, was first manufactured (and probably invented) by Benjamin Law in Batley, West Yorkshire, in 1813. The process involved grinding woollen rags into a fibrous ...
While things like expired spices, stained linens and junk mail should be tossed, you most likely have clutter — like clothing and books — lying around that someone else could put to good use.
Here are 13 national organizations for donating old, unwanted items you've inherited from loved ones; it saves space, offers tax benefits, and is eco-friendly.
"Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals use raw and semi-raw materials and parts to produce, transform, or reconstruct material possessions, including those drawn ...
Piles of scrap metal collected for the World War II effort, circa 1941 Collection of leftover scrap metal items. Scrap consists of recyclable materials, usually metals, left over from product manufacturing and consumption, such as parts of vehicles, building supplies, and surplus materials.