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1725 East Maple St., Maquoketa, IA 52060, USA
This listing was last updated on: May 24, 2022
Materials:
- C & D
- E-Scrap
- Haz-Waste
- Recycling
- Solid Waste
Description:
We are America’s largest “industrial thrift store” focused on the re-use and “repurposing” of the castoffs and discards of commerce and industry. We help small businesses all the way up to Fortune 500 companies divert millions of pounds from the landfill each year.
Our company is focused on the Reuse side of the famous Reduce, Reuse, Recycle slogan. So, we don’t Recycle…eg: chip it, shred it, grind it, melt it.
With Reuse, we’re looking for byproducts and waste that have value “as is”.
Our niche within the Reuse sector is “repurposing”. Examples: It is taking a byproduct or waste stream such as a retired street sweeper brush and giving it a 2nd life as a backscratcher for horses or cattle. It is taking a decommissioned fire hose and giving it an extended life as a boat dock fender. It is taking an obsolete ski lift cable and giving it a second life as hand railing in a luxury condo building.
With yards in Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, the Carolinas, Colorado, we have interest in opportunities all across the United States! We look forward to being a resource on any byproducts, waste, inventories, or equipment that would be a candidate for “repurposing”!
Please visit our website, too – www.repurposedmaterialsinc.com – to see all the kinds materials that can be “repurposed”!
ALSO, You might appreciate this article Popular Science magazine wrote about our mission/concept of “repurposing”. Fittingly, they released the story on Earth Day! Here is an excerpt: It is no small wonder that so many of repurposedMATERIALS’s clients have some link to farming or ranching—“cowboy engineers,” he calls them. “The ethos of repurposing has never gone away from farming,” he says. These people are used to solving problems on their own. “A cowboy in North Dakota goes, ‘you know what, my tractor’s stuck in the mud and that’s a really thick rope, I bet it’ll pull my tractor.’ I don’t need to get some structural engineer to tell me the rope is strong enough to pull my tractor out.”
Popular Science article link>> https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/creative-reuse-commercial-waste-master/
2500 47th Street, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
This listing was last updated on: January 10, 2021
Materials:
- Recycling
Description:
Individuals Looking to Upcycle Their:
BIKE TUBES (No Slime or Thorn Resistant tubes, or Tires)
CLIMBING ROPES
WETSUITS (No Booties, gloves or hoods)
Contact: Recycling@GreenGuruGear.com
for shipping instructions
OUR STORY
AT GREEN GURU GEAR, WE'RE A TEAM OF DEDICATED OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS WHO WORK TO CREATE CHANGE IN THE OUTDOOR AND CYCLING SPORTS INDUSTRIES. WE KNOW THAT MOST OUTDOOR GEAR CREATED TO PARTICIPATE IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES CAN LEAD TO ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION. INSTEAD OF STOPPING TO PLAY OUTSIDE, WE'VE DECIDED TO MANUFACTURE OUR OWN PRODUCTS IN A MORE ECO-RESPONSIBLE WAY.
BORN IN 2005, GREEN GURU GEAR USES OLD OUTDOOR GEAR THAT WOULD OTHERWISE END UP IN LANDFILLS TO CREATE NEW ADVENTURE GEAR. ALL GREEN GURU GEAR STARTED OUT AS SOMETHING ELSE LIKE BIKE TUBES, WETSUITS, AND BILLBOARD MATERIALS. BY KEEPING THESE VALUABLE MATERIALS OUT OF LANDFILLS, WE CAN ADVENTURE WITH A GOOD CONSCIOUS.
THE WORD “UPCYCLE” AS IT’S CALLED AT GREEN GURU BEGINS WITH PRODUCTS OBTAINED MOSTLY FROM “RECYCLING STATIONS.” LOCAL BIKE AND OUTDOOR SHOPS OFFER INCENTIVES FOR CUSTOMERS DONATING USED GEAR BEFORE THEY PURCHASE NEW PRODUCTS FROM THERE SHOP. COMPANIES LIKE REI, PATAGONIA, SEA WORLD, AND ORGANIZATIONS LIKE OUTWARD BOUND DONATE THEIR LEFT OVER MATERIALS, DEFECTIVE GEAR, AND OLD BIKE TUBES TO HELP US BUILD GREEN GURU GEAR GEAR.
THE DONATED GOODS THEN GO TO THE GREEN GURU WAREHOUSE IN BOULDER WHERE THEY ARE PROCESSED AND SORTED AND ARE THEN SEWN INTO FINISHED PRODUCTS LOCALLY. BY MAKING GREEN GURU GEAR CLOSE TO HOME, WE SUPPORT THE LOCAL ECONOMY WHILE PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
BY DONATING WASTE MATERIALS AND BUYING OUR PRODUCTS, CONSUMERS CAN BE A PART OF THE UPCYCLE PROCESS AND HELP OUR ENVIRONMENT BY REUSING MATERIALS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE END UP IN OUR LANDFILLS.
GREEN GURU AIMS AT AFFECTING REAL CHANGE THROUGH GREENER PRACTICES. BY MAKING USE OF USED BIKE INNER TUBES, WETSUITS, AND CLIMBING ROPE, GREEN GURU CLOSES THE LOOP IN THE TRADITIONAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE AND LETS OUTDOOR PRODUCTS LIVE A NEW LIFE. YEARS OF DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTATION HAVE ENABLED THE COMPANY TO GROW FROM A SMALL GROUP OF DESIGNS INTO A CATALOG OF PERFORMANCE-ORIENTATED PRODUCTS THAT EXCEED SOCIAL, QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS.
SUSTAINABILITY
OUR BUSINESS IS BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS. WE ASK DIFFICULT QUESTIONS ABOUT PROCESSES AND CREATE REAL SOLUTIONS THAT HELP US REDUCE WASTE AND RAISE EFFICIENCY. THIS PROCESS BENEFITS OUR ORGANIZATION AS WELL AS OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS ON MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS.
AS THE AMOUNT OF MATERIALS WE RECLAIM, JOBS WE CREATE AND PRODUCTS WE MANUFACTURE INCREASES, WE ARE ABLE TO REALIZE POSITIVE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE BY CREATING AN ORGANIZATION THAT HAS THE FOUNDATION NEEDED TO FLOURISH INTO OUR FUTURE.
WE ARE B-CORP CERTIFIED AND HAVE A GOLD LEVEL STATUS WITH THE COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM.
