"The truly green solution is to close the loop between manufacturing and recycling: reusing the old we so quickly and happily toss away to make the new. "

which is a generalised modification of the New York Times editorial talking about the heralded as green, the new corn phones, plastic made out of corn, which said .....

The truly green solution for electronics makers is to close the loop between manufacturing and recycling: reusing the plastics we so quickly and happily toss away to make new cellphones.

As a sometime model engioneer I really enjoy the warm fuzzy feeling when I manage to re-use some of the mountain of junk I have accumualted "becuase it looked to be useful for something, too good to throw away"