124 million tons of construction debris is buried in landfills every year. That is enough debris to build a wall about 30 feet high and 30 feet thick around the entire coast of the continental United States (4,993 miles). *

200,000 buildings are demolished in the U.S. each year. Up to 50 percent of each building is salvagable and reusable. Another 45 percent is recyclable into another usable form. *

Each year the United States buries about 33 million tons of wood related construction and demolition debris in our landfills. As anaerobic microorganisms decompose this wood, it will release about 5 million tons of carbon equivalent in the form of methane gas.
This is equivalent to the yearly emissions of 3,736,000 passenger cars. *

Homes in the U.S. are 38 percent larger in 2002 than in 1975, but house less people per household **

50 percent of consumed materials (globally) are used in construction and remodeling. **

Did you know that re-using the lumber from just one house (2,000 square feet)
saves 33 mature trees? *

For every ton of wood that is reused, we avoid creating 60 pounds of greenhouse gasses.*

Average annual materials saved by REStore from landfills -- over 2,500,000 pounds

Number of job sites visited by RE Store per year -- over 1100

RE Store pickups completed per year -- over 750

RE Store's first year of operation - 1993

35 local jobs are directly created by The RE Store (Bellingham & Seattle)

Over 80,000 customers annually visit our two stores in Bellingham & Seattle

An average home contains about 4,700 pounds of steel and 770 pounds of recyclable plastics. If carefully deconstructed, these materials could be recycled into new products with a net savings (or preservation of embodied energy) of 59 million Btu"s

The RE Store will pick up,
salvage, or fully dismantle
on your job site, house,
or business.

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* Statistics are used with permission
from the great folks at Deconstruction Institute

** Statistics are used from Sierra Magazine - Jan/Feb 2005

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