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, [...]

Billboards as tarps? Used conveyor belt beds as stall and trailer mats? You better believe it! Repurposed Materials, Inc, a company in the Denver, Colorado area is taking “going green” to a whole new level for the horse industry! Company founder, Damon Carson, believes his company’s tagline: “Repurposing and Re-using Waste and Byproducts of Industry” [...]

By Tim Queeney Next time you are driving and see a billboard by the side of the road, you might be looking at your next boat cover. Turns out many billboard images are made of huge sheets of heavy vinyl. When the ad has run its course, the vinyl sheets are taken down. According to [...]

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 [...]

Repurposed materials gives industrial materials a second life as agricultural products. Compiled by staff Repurposed materials is the only company in America whose entire product line is made of “repurposed” items. Here are some examples of “re-purposed” products that may be of interest to agriculture: Advertising billboards re-purposed as tarps for hay equipment, pond and [...]

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 [...]

The Repurposed Materials company has taken industrial products that often end up in the landfill and has found creative, lower-cost uses for them in the livestock and agriculture industry. Repurposed Materials is the only company in America whose entire product line is made of “repurposed” items, and says it makes both economical and environmental sense [...]