Sometimes an idea is so simple it’s astonishing no one has done it before. Build It Green is one of those ideas.
Here’s a brief clip from a recent clip from The L Magazine article about it:
According to the Build It Green website, New York City disposes of some 13,000 tons of construction waste every day. It’s mind boggling. Add to the sheer waste of materials the cost and energy consumption of trucking the waste out and new materials in, and you’ve got one heck of a big problem. But Build It Green N.Y. may have a solution.
In a 17,000-square foot warehouse in Queens, this offshoot of the Community Environmental Center, a green-building organization for New York residents, reclaims and sells building materials and fixtures to individuals and contractors. Donations to B.I.G. are tax deductible, and come from projects both large and small. Hundreds of doors fill one wall, windows, sinks and tubs await new homes, and lumber, tile, flooring and more are also on offer. There are boxes of ceramic tile and hundreds of gallons of paint. And it’s all really cheap.
Like I said, a really amazing and simple idea that helps control the enormous amounts of waste that construction / demolition projects create. Read the rest of the article here, and peruse some of their other stuff. It’s a pretty solid magazine and there’s a lot of interesting stuff packed in there!
[tags]construction, environment, green[/tags]