Wandering through the textiles section of Maker Faire 09 , I saw a booth with bins of junk and a sign that said “Scrap.” Turns out they weren’t talking about the junk in the bins, but rather

an operation that takes the trash from manufacturers and puts it back into the consumer stream via craftsters. …

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Maker Faire 09: SCRAP Puts Junk Back Into Craftster Consumer Stream