Upcycle Manifesto

Fuck Pottery Barn. If you find it at a thrift store, an estate sale, or someone’s front yard and you reclaim it and reuse it, it’s an upcycle. It’s also a radical act – because, in an economy dependent on our mindless consumption, transforming someone else’s garbage into new-to-you stuff is almost subversive. I recommend just starting, but a literature review on the topic would include: Rufus and Lawson’s The Scavenger’s Manifesto, Gavin Wade’s ‘Upcycle this Text’, and that YouTube video about the Story of Stuff.