Nature, comparatively, has no concept of a “raw material” or a “finished product”. When matter is no longer suitable for one specimen it is broken down into vital building blocks for use by the next. In this light, it is interesting to imagine the still beating will of minerals encrusted in a post-consumer object.  Longing to remain relevant. Quietly scheming on how to escape anthropogenic linearity. In actuality, any given technofossil, would be lucky to be recycled, even if only by reduction to its most basic function- i.e. an iPod Nano as a clothespin.