The world’s cycle of production and consumption largely operated in a balanced way until humanity’s industrial revolution. Nature took back what it produced; it replaced what it consumed. This cycle was neutral, continuous, and self-repairing.

This is precisely what we call nature.
Trees that absorb more carbon as they mature, freshwater, soils, and ecosystems that retain carbon… Carbon is absorbed, stored, and recirculated within nature’s own order. This cycle makes the planet’s climate balance possible.

In nature’s cycle, every naturally existing part has a role. None of them are unnecessary. Humanity is also a part of this system. However, with the industrial revolution, this balance was disrupted, and humanity’s role in nature changed.

Today, humanity has an additional responsibility in nature’s cycle.
To take ownership of the problems created by human hands that nature struggles to compensate for on its own, and to support nature in remaining in its own cycle.

The world has already exceeded its natural limits. The amount of carbon released into the atmosphere is more than nature can absorb. This is why the planet is warming, ecosystems are strained, and crises are deepening. The issue isn’t complicated. If we are the source of the problem, then we are also responsible for the solution.

Reppatch offers a new approach in this regard.
Reppatch makes visible again a piece of knowledge that has been part of humanity’s life for centuries: the practice of transforming and reusing what we already have. Reminding the world, the concept of upcycling, which already existed before the industrial revolution, in today’s world.

Through a collective structure of designers, artists, and manufacturers, Reppatch transforms clean, non-recyclable industrial waste into functional and design products. This collective structure exists not only for production but also for thinking together, taking responsibility together, and redefining the relationship with nature.

To date, Reppatch has partnered with individuals from different geographies, demonstrating that upcycling is not an individual effort but a meaningful collective action. Each collaboration has offered a small but real contribution to the cycle that nature already knows.

Because nature knows its own order.
Nature never forgot what to do.
We are the ones who forgot.

And now we hear to the voice of nature, and it reminds us of something we had forgotten.

-Nil Karul, Founder