reuse

"The more a meme gets readapted and reused, the more chances it has to stick in our actual vocabulary," the 24-year-old explains.

The human brain repeatedly reuses the same cognitive "blocks" across many different situations, combining and recombining them to form new patterns of behavior.

A reuse charity is asking people to consider second hand this Black Friday as part of an alternative national campaign called Buy Nothing New.

The team found that discarded Teflon can be broken apart and reused with only sodium metal and mechanical movement by shaking -- all at room temperature and without toxic solvents.

These minerals and the lithium could - if properly recovered - be reused for green technologies such as electric car batteries or in wind turbines.