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Things you never knew about The RE Store

Notes from the Field Crew – Aerialist and Tetris-style Salvage Techniques

May 10, 2012

Greetings and salutations from all of us here on the Seattle field crew. Like you, we have also noticed that glowing, round object in the sky, which must mean that it’s Spring. This time of year brings more Salvage Service jobs and more hours spent crammed in the cab of The RE Store trucks. From [...]

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Recycled Art Show kicks off with “Litter Becomes Art”

April 5, 2012

What happens when you gather 940 pounds of litter from a beach and turn the best of that litter into a temporary art installation? 30 plus volunteers have fun, get creative and do something active to help the declining quality of our marine waters. The RE Store’s 11th Annual Recycled Art Show opened with the [...]

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Notes from the Field Crew – Cabinet Sets and Marble Bits

March 8, 2012

Notes and photos by Ryan DeSales, Seattle Field Crew member The RE Store relies on a dedicated team to keep things running smoothly. If you’re a regular at our Bellingham or Seattle stores, you might even know a few us by name. What you might not know, however, is that we have a whole cast [...]

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The RE Store on Eco-Logical Home’s Podcast

January 27, 2012

The Eco-Logical Home is a weekly podcast program exploring sustainability and creating healthy, energy efficient, and joyful places to live.  Host Terry Phelan interviews guests that practice ways to design, organize, build, and maintain healthy, comfortable, and resilient places to live – and she recently interviewed The RE Store’s Bray Hayden, Seattle Outreach, Marketing & [...]

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The RE Store and Alcoa – supporting construction waste reduction and creative reuse

January 20, 2012

The RE Store has a long history of bootstrapping its own projects and innovations. We have had very few grants over the years. The few we have been awarded were focused on research and development of creative ways to reclaim more materials from the flood stage waste stream that we are drowning in. We already [...]

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The RE Store Certified Program – recognizing businesses that are making a difference

January 9, 2012

Are you curious to see how local businesses have incorporated reclaimed materials into their projects? Do you like to support businesses that are taking steps to be responsible stewards of this beautiful place where we live? The RE Store Certified Program is scratching the back of progressive local businesses. The non-profit organization is launching a [...]

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The RE Store enters – and wins – a pumpkin carving contest!

October 28, 2011

Carve for a Cause is a pumpkin carving contest event and fundraiser put on by Architects Without Borders -  Seattle (AWB-S), a nonprofit whose mission is to provide ecologically sensitive and culturally appropriate design assistance to communities in need.  This annual affair held at Design Within Reach in downtown Seattle calls upon design, contractor and [...]

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The RE Store spreads the Word of Salvage to Japan

October 20, 2011

The RE Store in Seattle hosted a group of Builders, Developers, and Architects from Japan this week.  They came to the states to attend the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Remodeler’s Show in Chicago, and had a two day stop in Seattle to see a couple of projects, and visit a salvage company – [...]

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The Future of Reuse and Recycling in Seattle – Your Input Requested!

September 15, 2011

Here at The RE Store, our mission is to keep useable building materials out of the waste stream – reusing what can be reused, and making sure as much of the rest that can be recycled is recycled.  We’ve diverted over 4 million pounds of construction & demolition waste from the landfill annually – while [...]

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Fall harvesting in the RE Patch – food and reuse

September 9, 2011

The RE Patch community garden and demonstration site is enjoying it’s first harvest season. This urban pea patch lives behind The RE Store in Bellingham, as a part of the The RE Store/RE Sources/Sustainable Living Center compound. It is a fertile and food-bearing example of creative reuse and volunteer elbow grease, guided by the good [...]

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