Construction Junction - Building Material Reuse

March 9- March 15, 2009

Regional reuse

Construction Junction recently received a valuable email from Katie Joost at The Loading Dock in Baltimore, Maryland.  The Loading Dock, Baltimore's local nonprofit building material reuse facility, has created a national nonprofit organization called ReDO which is short for Reuse Development Organization.

ReDO promotes reuse as an environemtally sound, socially beneficial and economical means for managing surplus and discarded materials.  To this end... ReDo has created a listing and map of architectural salvage & building material reuse centers in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.  Since we know that our customers travel to CJ from hundreds of surrounding zip codes, we thought it would be helpful to share this information with you.  Please feel free to print, post and share these flyers.

ReDo's website also includes a directory of reuse centers across the country as does the Building Material Reuse Association's (BMRA) website.

The CJ Buzz

You may not know this, but CJ is home to a number of other nonprofit organizations including The Pillow Project, Free Ride, Steel City Biofuels, and GTECH.

The latest addition to this line up is Creative Reuse Pittsburgh, a project supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund.  CRP's mission is to get re-useable materials which are ordinarily discarded back into circulation through programs that explore and encourage new ways of utilizing these wasted resources.  As such, Creative Reuse Pittsburgh:

1) Collects reusable discards from businesses and other organizations in the region.

2) Offers unique hands-on creative arts programs and activities for fairs and festivals, schools, corporate events and community centers.

3) Sells materials to the public by appointment (call 412-202-4036).  Prices range from .10 cents per item to $10 for a mix and match bag.  Some items are sold by the pound and sample kits are $15 each.  Click on the photos to see examples of available items. 

Featured Items

Glass doorknobs

Kitchen set

Recent Arrivals

Air conditioners	Bar pieces	Bar sink	Brass fixture	Ceiling tiles
Cement laundry tub	Counter top	Counters/Desks	Dining room table	Drywall
Flammable cabinet	Hanging fixtures	Kitchen island	Kitchen sets	Knotty pine bar
Lamps	Laundry tub	Little cabinet	Locking file cabinet	Metal cabinets
Metal wire shelves	Outdoor lights	Particle board	Patio door	Porch railing
Press board	Refrigerator	Rolling cabinet	Table lamp	Table saw
Theater seating	Vanity cabinets	Welcome desk	Windows

Great & Gone

Bath vanity	Closet cabinets
Exterior door	Green stripe drywall
Mirror	Pedestal sink
Rubber flooring

CJ Q&A

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Cozmo’s Message of the Week

I have some inside info... our organic Plant Pro potting soil is arriving next Friday, March 20th just in time for spring!  We call this stuff "magic soil".