One of my first exposures to recycling had the concept of "High-grading". By snipping off bits of steel, for example, copper tubing was suddenly worth a lot more as scrap. Recycling an aluminum can as a pot-pipe is also high-grading. By re-using this stuff without having to pulp it/ melt it, you are high grading this stuff.
I used to try to maintain an enormous file of collage materials, until I realized I wasn't using the stuff nearly as fast as I was accumulating it. What I had subconsciously been trying to do, was 'digest' all the media being thrown at me. So I found another sucker to take it all.
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Date: 2007-10-15 06:13 am (UTC)I used to try to maintain an enormous file of collage materials, until I realized I wasn't using the stuff nearly as fast as I was accumulating it. What I had subconsciously been trying to do, was 'digest' all the media being thrown at me. So I found another sucker to take it all.