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 [...]
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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 [...]
The minds behind Repurposed Materials are finding new ways to use scrapped industrial products, keeping them out of landfills and keeping money in people’s pockets. Consider the giant vinyl billboard advertisement. It’s created for some fleeting movie or fast food promotion and then thrown away. But that’s not just an consumerism bummer; it’s also a [...]
Most modern billboards, other than the horrid electronic ones, consist of a single giant plastic image. Around here they are changed out as much as every few weeks, which means an awful lot of old billboards end up somewhere. Billboard images are typically printed on PVC plastic or polyethylene. Polyethylene is the more environmentally sensitive [...]
