Scrooge walked back into the stall, still speaking through the curtain.
"Recycling means you take something, break it down into its components to make something new. Like turning old newspapers into new paper." He took a moment to pop his head through the neck hole. "Upcycling is when you take something that already exists and use it in a new way. I got hired on temporarily to help a picker who'd hurt his back. He sold this old claw tub to one of these upcycling shops. The next week? The owner had made a tub chair out of it."
Scrooge looked himself over. It was a red suede jacket with darker red patches on the sleeves. His beak actually twitched with pleasure at it. He'd always liked the color red. He stepped out to show Poe.
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Scrooge walked back into the stall, still speaking through the curtain.
"Recycling means you take something, break it down into its components to make something new. Like turning old newspapers into new paper." He took a moment to pop his head through the neck hole. "Upcycling is when you take something that already exists and use it in a new way. I got hired on temporarily to help a picker who'd hurt his back. He sold this old claw tub to one of these upcycling shops. The next week? The owner had made a tub chair out of it."
Scrooge looked himself over. It was a red suede jacket with darker red patches on the sleeves. His beak actually twitched with pleasure at it. He'd always liked the color red. He stepped out to show Poe.