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Dairy basics – Cow Comfort Written by Damon Carson Here is a second innovative idea from Damon Carson on reusing what some may consider to be “junk” materials. Look for future articles, and be sure to submit your own repurpose ideas to emily@progressivedairy.com. Also see Repurposed corner: Recycled billboard tarps. The byproduct of industry: Well, [...]

By Mike Taylor Damon Carson shops for clothes at thrift stores, spends Saturday mornings hitting garage sales and drives a Chevy pickup with 230,000 miles on it. Not that he has to. Carson was still in his early 20s when he and a business partner launched a waste-hauling business in Breckenridge. They sold it to [...]

By Chris Fox, Associate Editor, PD&D It’s not recycling, it’s repurposing. Just over a year ago, the owner of a waste company was struck with a vision for old billboard vinyls. Marketing departments use billboards to advertise to commuters, but those advertisements outdate quickly, and are no long of any use to marketing. The heavy [...]

By Claire Martin / The Denver Post Where others see garbage, Damon Carson sees possibility. At Repurposed Materials, his warehouse and yard in Denver, customers can find stacks of folded billboard vinyl, pressure-treated 2-by-6 lumber, 55-gallon barrels, swaths of conveyor belting and tire tread, slabs of snowplow rubber and used brushes from street sweepers. “Just [...]

An Arizona mining company learned of Damon Carson 10 days ago. Now he’s above their copper vein in the foothills east of Phoenix. The company clothes their mining tires in steel chains weighing 7,000 pounds or more. They’ve called on Carson because he has an eye and a platform for, as he puts it, “creative [...]

By Claire Martin Where others see garbage, Damon Carson sees possibility. At Repurposed Materials, his warehouse and yard north of Park Hill, customers can find stacks of folded billboard vinyl, pressure-treated 2-by-6 lumber, 55-gallon barrels, swaths of conveyor belting and tire tread, slabs of snowplow rubber and used brushes from street sweepers. “Just because it [...]

Repurposed Materials is a unique “green” business. As our tag line says, “Repurposing and Re-using Waste and Byproducts of Industry.” By that we mean, we sell products, containers, materials, etc. that are either waste from or byproducts of manufacturing and commerce that can be re-purposed “as is.” In most recycling efforts, as you know, products [...]

Hello Fellow Repurposers, Repurpose (v) To give a new purpose or use to Welcome to the Repurposed Materials blog site where we will share with you repurposing tips that you can use to solve problems, save money, and lessen your impact on the environment. It’s not reducing, it’s not reusing, it’s not recycling, it is [...]

A reclaimed products chart-topper everyone can use. By: Lauren Hunter Reclaimed construction materials are more than just the barn-wood flooring and oil drum sink base installed in modern, green-minded homes. One entrepreneur has recently started selling a range of reclaimed products designed for use on construction jobsites rather than in the homes being built. Recycled [...]