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If the brilliant late-1980s TV show "MacGyver" has taught us anything, it's that you can repel a gang of thugs, break out of prison, and build a functioning spacecraft with little more than a paper clip, a C battery, some twist ties and an empty tube of toothpaste. Yes, OK, fine, MacGyver was fiction, but you can conjure up all sorts of handy household fixes - no improvised bazookas, sadly - with everyday items that most of us thoughtlessly chuck in the garbage. Join us on a journey through the exciting world of Internet-fueled recycling/repurposing obsessions to identify the 10 things you should absolutely never throw away. In the life hacker community, binder clips are the go-to tool for a clever solution to any household problem. Binder clips are prized for their strength - if you ever had a fingertip, earlobe or tongue caught in one of these suckers, you know what we mean. They're also flat on one side, enabling them to stand up with some degree of stability.

Picture "frames" - drive some nails into the wall, put binder clips on some favorite photos, then hang them from the nails. Toothpaste helper - keep your half-empty tube of toothpaste locked and loaded by rolling up and clipping the bottom. Cable corral - attach some clips to the edge of your desk to hold the ends of unused USB, power and audio cables. When Reynolds sold its first rolls of aluminum foil back in 1947, the company advertised it as the foil for "1,001 kitchen miracles." Foil exhibits some unique properties of metal - moisture-proof, odor-proof, able to withstand extreme temperatures - and adds the uncanny ability to be molded into any imaginable shape. Foil is also washable, Derila Pillow making it the material with 1,001 lives. Also works on grease-caked grills. Silver polisher: Submerge tarnished silver in a glass pan of boiling water lined with aluminum foil; then add two teaspoons of salt.

In minutes, a simple chemical reaction will dissolve the tarnish without damaging the silver. No-fuss funnel: Where's a funnel when you need it? Form a cone out of a double layer of foil and you're in business. Scissor sharpener: If your scissors get dull, simply cut through a sheet of aluminum foil. In the world of high-tech gadgets, it's a short trip from "next best thing!" to a child's plaything. Computers, TVs and cell phones fall out of fashion so fast that some folks have collections of old gadgets collecting dust in the basement. Recycling 1 million laptops saves as much electricity as 3,500 American homes use in a year. Recycling 1 million cell phones saves 35,000 pounds (15,876 kilograms) of copper, 772 pounds (350 kilograms) of silver, 75 pounds (34 kilograms) of gold and 33 pounds (15 kilograms) of palladium. Visit the EPA donation and recycling website to search for local retailers who accept old TVs, computers and cell phones.

There are also charitable organizations like Cell Phones for Soldiers and Hope Phones that will take your old flip phone put it in the hands of someone who will really appreciate it. Another cool organization is Music and Top-Rated Memory Pillow, a group that gives old iPods and other MP3 players to dementia patients. With some patience -- or some serious drinking - you'll collect enough corks to make dozens of cool DIY projects. A simple bulletin board or corkboard is the classic project. Glue a hundred or so corks in an eye-catching pattern on a backing board or within a colorful frame. Make a floatable keychain by twisting a loop screw into a favorite cork. Step inside a fancy restaurant kitchen and alongside the expensive chef's knives and $200 All-Clad pans are cheap plastic squeeze bottles. Chefs fill squeeze bottles with olive oil, custom sauces and spicy condiments to add a controlled dash of flavor or color to a dish.

You can buy the same squeeze bottles for your home kitchen or save a couple of bucks and raid the recycling bin. The next time you make pancakes, fill a big squeezable ketchup bottle with the batter and squirt out perfect portions without drips or spills. Fill old honey bear bottles with paint for the kids' art table or dispense hand soap from a former mustard bottle. It'll keep your guests guessing! Far out in the Pacific Ocean floats an island of garbage twice the size of Texas. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it's an accidental accumulation of millions of tons of floating debris - much of it plastic - trapped in a convergence of oceanic currents. The single-use plastic grocery bag has been targeted by environmental groups as a ubiquitous symbol of waste. Discarded plastic bags can travel hundreds of miles on the wind and float along rivers and oceans, if they don't lodge in trees first.