The whole "feminists burn their bras" thing is kind of a canard, but now you can do it for real and for an equally good cause. Japanese lingerie manufacturers are collecting bras and recycling them into solid fuel.

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It's been pretty successful, too:

Triumph has collected more than 200,000 bras since it began the program in 2009 and turned them into 14 tons of [refuse paper and plastic] fuel. Wacoal has collected more than 179,200 bras and produced 17.9 tons of the fuel.

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Apparently Japanese women are powerfully bashful about the task of disposing of worn-out underclothes — which makes more sense when you know that many municipalities in Japan require you to put trash in a transparent bag and leave it at a public pick-up point. Women apparently feel weird about being all "HERE'S MY OLD BRA, WORLD," and who can blame them. 

The bra-recycling program spares them the embarrassment of throwing bras away, plus it recycles them into fuel to make more bras. It's the circle of bras. Ourobraros.