Old milk jugs and pool noodles are standard materials for repurposing, but check out what you can do with items like books ...

To this end, we synthesized silicone (polydimethylsiloxane; PDMS) foam disks resulting in a low cost (0.02$/disk) and ultraclean material suitable for analysis by gas or liquid chromatography ...

Wait! Before you toss these items in the trash or recycling bin, check out all of the brilliant ways you can repurpose them ...