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The RE Store's success is based on a winning formula:
We save money for homeowners, contractors, and business owners on disposal costs, while providing high quality building materials at discounted prices. This creates jobs and opportunities for reuse, education, and innovation at every step of the process.
The services provided by The RE Store are geared towards these primary goals:
- Diverting usable materials from land fills
. - Offering affordable used building materials to everyone
. - Empowering community members by helping them build skills around home and business improvements and remodeling
. - Saving money for homeowners and contractors on their disposal and labor costs to remove materials
. - Giving our clients the good feeling that comes with wise stewardship of building resources, especially considering that one-quarter of all landfill waste comes from construction.
The RE Store was founded in 1993 by the non-profit organization RE Sources for Sustainable Communities to address the growing problem of wasteful disposal of useable building materials, most of which were buried in the local landfill. The RE Store provides an alternative to dumping those materials.
In addition to giving old materials new life, The non-profit RE Store also saves homeowners, contractors, and business owners the burden of wasting useful, beautiful, and unique items. Since its inception, The RE Store has turned building material waste into a viable sustainable business venture that diverts close to 3,000,000 pounds of waste per year from needless disposal while employing over 30 people.
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200,000 buildings are demolished each year
in the United States.
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The demolition of a modest
2,000 square foot house generates a mountain of trash; 127 tons of it, in fact.
The RE Store is a
self-sustained project
of RE Sources for
Sustainable Communities,
a non-profit environmental
education, advocacy, and waste reduction organization based in Bellingham, WA.
Our Fall Event Series blew the doors off...
Recycled Art Show and Haute Trash Fashion Show
Rockin at the RE Store
What's
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