The majesty and usefulness of recycling captured in an exquisite hand-crafted child's toy

A Texas reader, Robert Birch, wishes to draw your attention to a magnificent artistic creation he is selling on Ebay, which he lovingly constructed from 100 per cent recycled materials (not all of them organic, unfortunately, but still…). Clearly he believes as passionately in the virtues of recycling as I do. Unfortunately I can't seem to reproduce the picture here.

But I urge you, go to his Ebay page, think of all the world's children who are being drowned, starved or bored to death thanks t...