Recycling isn't a new idea. Our ancestors reused bits of cloth for quilts, made clothing out of flour bags and used old cigar boxes to make chip-carved picture frames and boxes. Their rule was "waste ...

BOISE (AP) — Artist Cathy Mansell wants your old thread spools, your empty yogurt containers, your unwanted vinyl LPs. She knows that even if she has no use for the yarn remnants, wallpaper samples, ...