[a fool in paradise]

REUSE is not recycle. Here is gets its own damn "R".

Be gone. Please be gone and drop this.

[ReignOfError]

Tell these people that they're not recycling. Or these folks. They obviously don't know as much about their own business as you do.

[roadcat]

No, I won’t be gone and I won’t drop it. Self-righteous people come on a thread and mock people for giving new life to goods, and you get tangled up over PC words. You get over it. Not everyone wants a throw-away mentality; that’s what is causing landfills to get full. I learned from my parents about making best use of goods. They came out of the Depression appreciating any goods, whether they were hand-me-downs or not. Growing up, I and my four siblings had nothing that was new, it was all recycled by others giving them away or selling them cheap. I frequented Salvation Army as a teen to buy my own furniture. Back then, they would sell furniture for a couple dollars - literally. Did you think Cash for Clunkers was a good idea, destroying perfectly good automobiles?

[hoosierham]

Obviously you have serious issues if you hate the idea of the old Apple sitting as a display piece while $100,000 goes to help people. To prefer the computer have been destroyed in order is just plain insanity.

Recycling in a sane world definitely includes the use of the item by another party.Your kind would deny poorer people secondhand ,perfectly usable items, in order to feel good about some hideously inefficient “recycling”.

Take your idiotic government/industry driven definitions and begone yourself.