Cheung is an upcycling product designer ... For his most famous design, the Boombottle, he now sources the plastic bottles from medical clinics that once used the containers to hold medicine.

Some plastics can even be upcycled or made into an equal or better-quality product than the original. GC now has a project that takes plastic bottles and turns them into fabric. The resulting ...

Narrator: This pile of scraps is actually shredded plastic and clothing, and it's about to be turned into bottles ... This isn't really recycling; it's upcycling. This concept of upcycling ...