The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) of 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (P. L. 101-476) identified specific categories of disabilities under which children may be eligible for special education and related services. The most recent legislation, the IDEA Amendments of 1997 (P.L. 105-17), allows states and local education agencies to apply the term developmental delay for children ages 3-9.
Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.
An upcycled product is generally of higher value than the materials or objects used to create it â hence examples like metal ring pulls or can tops becoming jewellery items such as brooches or earrings, low-value coins becoming cufflinks, and so on.