Recycle vs Upcycle - What's the difference?
recycle | upcycle |
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
To convert (waste materials etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
As verbs the difference between recycle and upcycle
is that recycle is while upcycle is to convert (waste materials etc) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.recycle
English
Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
