upcycling 

The practice of converting waste materials into products of greater value.

By upcycling, the contractor took a junked Boeing 747 and created a home for a client.

upcycling by PittCaleb January 5, 2009

upcycling 

Making crap out of garbage. Just like Martha Stewart used to, but "original" and more pretentious.

Examples of upcycling:

Earring made of Christmas lights.
Painting empty liquor bottles and calling them vases.
Purses made out of soda can pop tabs.
Putting your baby pictures in beer caps.

upcycling by IDKWhatIIsDoin March 7, 2014

upcycling 

"Upcycling": The process of converting waste materials or useless products into new, even more useless products with absolutely no environmental value whatsoever.

Additional info: Anyone that purchases upcycled products or engages in upcycling invariably smells of sanctimony and douchewater. FACT.

upcycling by Spicahontas May 15, 2011

Upcycling 

A word which will make any UK Edexcel ICT GCSE student cringe. An activity that they will devote two wasteful years of their life to, writing websites, spreadsheets, databases, lists and any other mundane task the board demand. When asked what it means, any IT student will go into a trance before spelling it as it is: "The action of making a worthless object into a new one with more value"

Newsreader: Now we will talk about Anne, who is starting a business based on Upcycling furniture

Guy 1: huh, I wander what upcy...

Guy 2: "The action of making a worthless object into a new one with more value"

Guy 1: woah, whats up with your voice, are you high as a fly?

Upcycling by bishbashboshjt November 7, 2012

Linguistic Upcycling 

Using an AI chat bot like ChatGPT to rewrite what you want to say so you sound smarter.

Thanks to Linguistic Upcycling, every time I ask a question in a meeting, I sound really smart.

Linguistic Upcycling by OutsideTrading March 6, 2023

Upcyclist 

An Upcyclist is a person who upcycles. An Upcyclist creatively reuses useless or unwanted items and converts them into something useful.

Did you see how that Upcyclist took that old, broken sewing machine and turned it into a lamp? That’s one creative Upcyclist!

Upcyclist by Rubbish 2 Ravish July 4, 2019

Uncycling 

Opposite of recycling; the act of destroying an object to prevent further use of the object, its components, or its remains. This is a step of the uncycling cycle. Coincidentally it is the only step of the uncycling cycle.

"I completely uncycled that bottle, it was nothing but nonrenewable ashes! I love uncycling!"

Uncycling by RED Club President December 27, 2009