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Every home seems to have what Sam Drong calls a "pile of denial" — a drawer full of electrical cables that might be useful one day, or old cellphones that haven't been turned on in a decade. If those cast-offs make it to Repowered, a specialty recycler where Drong works in St. Paul, they can be recycled for parts, or in some cases, refurbished and resold. Repowered is one of the businesses .