The first thing Upcycles said on-stage is that they're human centric and anti-robot.
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The T3 — the "T" stands for "trike," — is the latest prototype of an urban delivery vehicle from Upcycles, a Brooklyn start-up founded in 2017.
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Wearables For more than 15 years Ms. Pulitzer has been a fan of Helene Florence, an artist who upcycles kimono fabrics into fashion, accessories and jewelry.
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Upcycles most recently attracted the attention and support of Urban-X, a Brooklyn-based incubator program for city-focused start-ups, created by the Mini car company, which gave them $60,000.
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A rare nonprofit that upcycles and recycles flowers is BloomAgainBklyn, which makes up to 450 arrangements a week from discarded flowers donated by partners like Trader Joe's, David Stark and Cipriani.
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Cobham shares shot up on the same day after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock, citing the company's turnaround and the start of "multi-year upcycles ... in core defense and aerospace markets".
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Of the eight companies in Urban-X's 02 cohort, I picked four that tackled problems relating to pollution, the visually impaired, urban deliveries and maintaining public cleanliness: O2O2 Facewear, WearWorks, Upcycles and Sencity, respectively.
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"In the next year we are going from a prototype toward production vehicles, building and producing small batches from our shop — it will be about getting them into the hands of our test users," said Nick Wong, another Upcycles founder.
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Inspired by the title of Rancid's 1995 album " … And Out Come The Wolves," Boobs upcycles gently used punk, metal, and rock t-shirts, outfitting them with inverted zippers so nursing moms can easily feed their children while still looking hardcore.
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The latter is the Instagram account of Adam Hale, the collage artist who takes images from free weekly magazines, the sort most people grab but quickly toss, and upcycles them into meticulously composed and slightly surrealist collages that, though they appear to be digitally created, are made with paste and an X-acto knife.
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Miniwiz () is a Taiwanese company that upcycles consumer and industrial waste into construction and consumer products. The company was founded by Arthur Huang. It is headquartered in Taiwan with offices in Milan, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai.
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Looptworks is a Portland, Oregon business that upcycles or re-purposes abandoned, pre-consumer and post-consumer materials into limited-edition products. By re-using the world’s pre-consumer excess, the U.S.-based company aims to "break the cycle of waste". The products created by Looptworks primarily focus on bags, accessories and clothing. It is estimated that a single garment factory can create up to 60,000 pounds (27 metric tons) of textile waste, which normally goes to landfills.
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