Students learn about upcycling
Travis Reed, Argos USA Environmental Director, recently participated in the Calera Intermediate School Earth Day event. Travis served as a guest judge for the students’ Earth Day Presentations, where students had to put their creativity skills to the test by upcycling “junk” into useful items.
As opposed to traditional recycling, which reduces the amount of waste going to landfill by taking the waste items and putting them back in the chain to their raw state so they can be used again, upcycling, through the addition of design, takes waste items forwards in the chain to become more beautiful, more valuable and hopefully more desirable for years to come.
