Hey repurposers, We are honored to announce that we are nominated for a Green America’s People & Planet Award! Here is an exclusive look straight from the website. [www.greenamerica.com] Be sure to CLICK HERE to vote for us in the category of Green Business!     repurposedMATERIALS Denver, CO             [...]

By: Mike Shaw One of Damon Carson’s customers recently told him, “You’re really just a professional dumpster diver, aren’t you?” Carson took it as a compliment. “I’ve been called a lot of things: Dr. Junk, dumpster jockey, trash wizard. It doesn’t matter, as long as they know I’ve got what they need,” he says. The [...]

Green usually isn’t a word you want to hear in association with pools, but Repurposed Materials might have a way to change your mind about that. With a motto like “Repurposing and reusing waste and byproducts of industry,” you know this company is as green as it gets. Unlike most recycled materials, however, the products [...]

WHEN THE PIONEERS WERE HEADING across the plains, nothing ever went to waste. Women knitted wool scraps into mittens and dolls’ clothing, and boiled ashes and animal fat into soap. Anything on the trail that could be burned was used for heating. Back then, recycling and repurposing was a necessity. Today, the use of recycled [...]

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This article from fastcoexist.com shows some ingenious ways people are finding to use industrial products no longer needed, not only are the keeping the material from being trashed they are also saving cash by giving old items a new use. One Man’s Used Vinyl Billboard… Consider the giant vinyl billboard advertisement. It’s created for some [...]