If you don't already know these words, they are soon to become part of our daily vocabulary: Upcycling and Trashion.
When I checked my email this morning I found an article from the Baltimore Sun reporting on a New Jersey company that is taking consumer product packaging waste and transforming it into new products - umbrellas, shower curtains, tote bags and so on. It is apparently a concept whose time has come, as several major retailers have signed on to carry the products.
The process is called Upcycling, a term created by William McDonough and Michael Braungart in their book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things". Essentially it means to take something disposable and transform it into something of use and value.
Funny how that leads us straight to "trashion" - a marriage of (you know where I'm going, don't you?) trash and fashion. So now carrying a change purse made from a snack food package is fashionable, hip and eco friendly.
We knew it all along. And if it's good enough for Target, well, it's good enough for us too. So next time you visit Antiques on Cannon you'll find some upcycled goods - wrapper change purses, watch part jewelry - and our very popular game board journals and tin can animals!
signing off with a little help for the planet -
marilyn
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