Yiuco is a web-based service, the first of its kind- that lets people sell things so long as they are recycled, reused, upcycled or remanufactered. People are also able to share their ideas for reuse and recycled objects.
Yiuco offers a space for creators, inventors and entrepreneurs to run their own online shops. It’s like eBay meets Etsy but everything listed has to have had a previous life.
Yiuco, the Greek word for piled up clothes, aims “to create, design and think of new longer life-lasting products that will be more easily recycled and be used again instead of ending up as waste.”
The name is a bit amorphous as the service doesn’t just handle clothes. Yiuco has a wide range of categories from baby to movies and music to electronics. Items listed on the site include tin can creations, jenga block keychains and bowls made from old vinyl.
Since the service is so new and still being populating by new buyers and sellers, there are no transaction or listing fees until spring of this year.
For some more all-consuming inspiration, check out the Upxchange and this video on how to repurpose plastic.
(Spotted on Springwise)
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
