Erin, a local blogger in Dallas who also does a weekly radio segment about green home improvement, has a great post about keeping construction debris to a minimum.
We have been thinking about this issue at Clean Air Gardening lately, as we do a green renovation on a building that we recently purchased.
Our building used to belong to a clothing wholesaler, so there are hundreds of steel rods throughout the building that were used to hang clothes on. This will actually be the easiest thing for us to deal with, because steel is worth good money! We’ll be able to sell it to a scrap metal dealer. (See photo above.)
We have been thinking about how to effectively recycle some of the other things left in the building though, and Erin’s post had a lot of good suggestions. We had already discussed posting something on Craigslist or Freecycle, and her post gives us confidence that we are on the right track.
Thanks for the post, Erin!
Anyone else have any ideas about recycling materials that you take out of a building when you renovate? Leave a comment!
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The Habitat for Humanity Re-Stores are great for a) unloading stuff you don’t need, but someone else might, and b) getting stuff you need without buying new.
California has the California Materials Exchange… I wonder if there is a similar government program in Texas…