In nature, redundant (genomic) material is hardly ever ‘garbage’, i.e. waste that is thrown away, but almost always ‘junk’, bric-a-brac or scrap iron ready to be reinterpreted and reused. Reuse is not a marginal strategy, but a major route for biological evolution.

Rubbish is a great resource put in the wrong place by someone who lacks imagination when it could be recycled for everyone’s benefit.