Upcycling

Did you know 8000 litres of water is needed to make one pair of jeans? Now think of the happy implications if all those old denims could be repurposed into school stationery for hundreds of marginalised kids.

Mohanta says that he also often goes to schools to talk to the students about reusing plastic bottles. He says, “I tell them that plastic takes forever to decompose and dumping it is of no use, so we should reuse them.”

“I primarily work on two kinds of bottles; one is the upright bottle, in which we insert an LED light and the second one is one in which the bottle is inverted. This inverted bottle comes with a wooden stand, and that wood is also waste wood. All in all, we try and use all the discarded materials to put this together.”

Stem cells need a support structure as they form specialised tissue. These scientists have now found a cheap, safe, and ecofriendly source for this tissue scaffolding!

Upcycling waste bottles sounds good? Well, the college is doing more than that. The students are now growing 25 different vegetables in waste cement bags, broken buckets and tin cans!

If you look carefully in your home or work place, you will never run short of repurposing the products. In fact, the idea of upcycling did not appeal to me as a kid until my grandmother upcycled sarees and bed sheets into a magnificent velvet quilt! #LiveGreen #Upcycle

Engaged in art and craft for over a decade, Meena Patankar’s tryst with paper started when her children grew up.

From suave bags fashioned from tetra paks, denim and other textile wastes to fancy tea coasters made using motherboards and vinyl records, Rimagined’s range of upcycled products is indeed a revelation.

"At Silver Nut Tree, the experiments go on on a daily basis, turning 'trash' into viable beautiful products that in their finished avatars are hard to be associated to the humble base material used in their creation."

The spark of inspiration ignited in Shubhi Sachan during her masters’ final project, ‘Traditional Futures’, which dealt with various agricultural waste and their secondary uses.