Upcycling, upcycling and recycling Direct

[Christophe]

We've been talking about direct recycling here for years: https://www.econologie.com/forums/recyclage- ... -vf69.html

Well the "official" terms are in fact upcycling or upcycling as our dear elephant has just found it here: https://www.econologie.com/forums/post283221.html#283221

See this Evening article: http://www.lesoir.be/803178/article/vic ... -recyclage

[Ahmed]

This completely obscures the debates on recycling (reuse of raw materials for goods) or upgrading (reuse of goods in a form similar to its primary destination or in a different use), and it is not by chance is that the qualitative aspect is never addressed.
I am not referring here to the possible intrinsic quality of the goods, but to the reduction to their only exchange value, which is, I admit very readily, the only purpose of the goods.
From there, the positive aspects of this approach are canceled out, in the sense that the reduction in waste that we can legitimately expect, is actually done in the very name of waste (eluding the social or real wealth of the object ).
On the one hand, it involves reintroducing materials into the manufacturing cycles of goods destined for a fleeting existence; on the other hand, to justify the continuation of this waste, since it generates less apparent nuisance and seems to obey a reassuring rationality.
These two points are connoted historically at a time when the depletion of resources and the accumulation of pollution become sufficiently evident for an ideological response to impose this falsifying solution.