Upcycling a Plastic Bottle:

The steps are simple and you can do it at home! You only need to clean the bottles then pick your creative projects. For instance, self-watering bottle garden, plastic bottle bird feeder, plastic bottle sprinkler, etc.  

As you can see, Upcycling requires way less energy, while creating more utility for the old material and demanding less new materials.

Recycling involves the industrial process of waste destruction, turning it into recycled material before manufacturing it into a product; whereas, upcycling neither requires the additional step of breaking down the materials nor loses the quality of raw materials in order to repurpose existing materials.

Recycling a Plastic Bottle:

There are numerous steps that go into recycling a plastic bottle. It starts by collecting the plastic bottles, sorting the bottles by plastic type, cleaning the bottles, shredding the bottles into flakes, melting down the bottles, turning them into small pallets, selling the plastic pallets to manufacturers where they will then finally turn these pallets into new products.