How is reusing OLD styrofoam to make furniture less environmentally friendly than cutting down a tree to make a wooden chair, or a Chinese factory burning tons of coal to melt the steel needed for a metal chair, or the gallons of oil needed to make a plastic chair?

I hope your couch cushions are made from old tshirts stuffed with pine straw and grass clippings and not synthetic fibers and upholstery foam..

And just so you know, reusing old materials is about a thousand times more environmentally friendly than recycling them, since youre not wasting energy and burning fuels in order to melt them down for use in new products. But the reason you have recycling beat into your heads but no one says a peep about reusing is because reusing saves the consumer money, whereas recycling saves the corporations money.