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Upcycling is reusing waste or unwanted materials without destroying them in order to create something new. Founded 2011 Β· 290.5K members

290.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.7K upvotes, which works out to 61 per 1,000 members.

61peak upvotes per 1,000 members
290.1Kmembers
17.7Kbest post
182most comments
430posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

57% 26% 8%
Gallery 57% Image 26% Question 8% Text 6% Video 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Completed Upcycling Project 240 Ideas Needed! 159 Upcycling Work in Progress 30

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

i made a giant hair clip out of cardboard and yarn for my bedroom curtain🌱

↑ 17.7K πŸ’¬ 182 gallery 2026

Rake upcycle

↑ 9.5K πŸ’¬ 116 image 2026

My mom is turning our farm feed bags into grocery bags.

↑ 4.3K πŸ’¬ 98 gallery 2026

New skill unlocked

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 84 image 2026

Repurposed old chest into sewing storage !

↑ 2.6K πŸ’¬ 51 gallery 2026

What do you guys think to this bench I upcycled?

↑ 2.6K πŸ’¬ 55 gallery 2026

Finished Project! Before and After

↑ 2.3K πŸ’¬ 46 gallery 2026

Here’s some ways I use all the jars I get from the dispensary

↑ 2.3K πŸ’¬ 91 gallery 2026

hot dog dealers vest

↑ 2.3K πŸ’¬ 51 gallery 2026

Made some pants out of mainly t shirt meat

↑ 1.8K πŸ’¬ 147 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/upcycling, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/upcycling?
r/upcycling describes itself this way: Upcycling is reusing waste or unwanted materials without destroying them in order to create something new. It was founded in 2011 and has 290.5K members.
How many members does r/upcycling have?
r/upcycling has about 290.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 430 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.7K upvotes, which is 61 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/upcycling?
"i made a giant hair clip out of cardboard and yarn for my bedroom curtain🌱" reached 17.7K upvotes and 182 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/upcycling.
What subreddits are similar to r/upcycling?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/upcycling?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are gallery posts and 26% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/upcycling?
Across 430 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 11:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/upcycling?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/upcycling has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 59 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/upcycling, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.