Be the first at your company/school to mention Inverse Manufacturing
It might not be the newest idea (Xerox and I'm guessing a multitude of others have been doing some variation on this for years), but Inverse Manufacturing is a viable option for your karma and your company's bottom line. Quite simply, Inverse Manufacturing is the manufacture of high quality parts to last multiple product lifetimes. Ex: a widget in the first generation of a product is disassembled and placed into later generations.(via Treehugger)