So you've renovated your bathroom, and you're wondering what to do with the old cabinets, sink, bathtub. They're in good condition and it seems like such a waste to just haul them to the dump. What do you do?
If you live in San Francisco, you call Building REsources. The non-profit salvage yard accepts tax-deductible donations of clean, reusable building materials. They'll pick them up, free of charge, with advance notice (only within city limits). Your stuff doesn't end up in the landfill. And Building REsources then turns around and sells items to builders, artists, renovators, scavengers at a low cost. Everybody wins.
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I live on an Army post (Fort Benning, GA) and the private company that owns the housing is being very green about tearing down, salvaging and rebuilding the new housing.
From an article about the housing projects here http://www.thebayonet.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/top_stories/top01.txt
"During the demolition of McGraw Manor, the Clark, Pinnacle and Army partnership recycled more than 1 million pounds of metal and more than 200 million pounds of concrete, said Phil Cowley, the project director for Fort Benning Family Communities, which is responsible for managing the 50-year privatization initiative.
âOur recycling and reuse plan diverted more than 100,000 tons of materials from landfills,â he said.
Cowley talked about other milestones that were met since October 2004, including nearly 400,000 man-hours without a lost-time injury. And the new homes feature low-flow water fixtures, which should save nearly 2.5 million gallons of water a year, Cowley said."
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We are just outside of DC and found this place to take our old, horrible beige wall to wall carpet and padding (when we put our bamboo floors in next week, yeah!!!): http://www.rmbrokerage.com/ We haven't actually worked with them yet, but they have been very fast at responding to my many questions by e-mail and they seem pretty flexible.
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