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"The
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-- Albert Camus
-- Albert Camus
Seeking
Salvaged Building Materials? PlanetReuse Can Help
Make
decorative and functional things for your home and garden out of recycled
items. With a little imagination, you can create furniture, lighting, garden
art and personal accessories from materials destined for the recycling plant or
the landfill. Get the kids involved with your recycled crafts to teach them to
think outside the box.
Where I
lived in AZ it was easy to find materials being readied for the dumpster by
area contractors. So much home building
had taken place, free stuff was easy to find…all you had to do was ask or spend
a few bucks at the local Goodwill. We
now live in MI and the pickings aren’t as easy to find but we manage none the
less.
After spending a decade working on projects to design and build
LEED-certified projects, Nathan Benjamin saw a major flaw in the supply chain.
He noticed that, while builders sought to create “green” environments, they
were sending tons of disposed materials to the landfill and replacing them with
new items.
“Sourcing used materials for LEED projects was difficult, and
therefore was not accessible to most design professionals,” explains the
LEED-accredited architectural engineer. “We also knew that job site
superintendents were looking for an alternative to the Dumpster for their
demolition and construction waste.”
Those two simple but profound observations led Benjamin to create PlanetReuse, a sort of
Match.com for people who are looking for materials for building projects.
Connecting used or discarded materials with contractors, builders and
architects has created a new life for the materials while keeping tons of
building products out of landfills. Many of the materials found on the
PlanetReuse site come directly from reuse salvagers and deconstruction
companies, Benjamin says — and are companies most people have never heard of.
“They are out there salvaging materials every day,” he says. “Our
job is to match up their great stuff with the folks that are looking for things
you can’t find in a box store.”
That may include everything from bowling alley lanes and church
steeples to reclaimed materials from a 120-year-old farm house. The constantly
changing inventory includes materials from commercial and residential projects…
Locally, you might tap into the resources offered by Habitat for
Humanity and their ‘ReStore’ salvage outlets.
Find one year you at:
Sources: Earth911.com
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