In the West, we make a big deal about recycling, but what we really mean by "recycling" is melting down old crap to build yet more new crap. This is not the same everywhere. In some places, to recycle means to reuse, foregoing the energy-wasting reprocessing for a simple re-purposing of an old object. And if you thought I used the prefix "re-" too many times in that last sentence, then you're just being extravagant. I was recycling it. Above you see an old, keyless computer keyboard, the kind of