The RE Store

Helping homeowners, builders, and businesses since 1993

We save disposal costs for homeowners, builders, and business owners, while providing high quality building materials at discounted prices. This creates jobs and opportunities for reuse, education and innovation at every step of the process.

We stock quality building and home improvement materials at prices that are up to 50% less than the cost of new items. The RE Store also offers a wide variety of services including pickups, salvage, and full building deconstruction. Retail stores are located in Bellingham and Seattle.  A fleet of trucks visit job sites, businesses, homes, and storage facilities throughout western Washington. The RE Store is a leader in the used building materials industry, a valued member of the community, and a winner of local, state, and national awards.

The services provided by The RE Store are geared towards these primary goals:

Diverting usable materials from land fills
Offering affordable used building materials to everyone
Saving money for homeowners and contractors on their disposal and labor costs
Empowering and inspiring community members to build skills in home remodeling and business improvements
Giving our customers the good feeling that comes with wise stewardship of building resources

Why is the RE Store a non-profit building supply and services company?

The RE Store was founded in 1993 by the non-profit organization RE Sources for Sustainable Communities to address the growing problem of wasteful disposal of useable building materials, most of which were buried in the local landfill. The RE Store provides an alternative to dumping those materials. 200,000 buildings are demolished each year in the United States. The demolition of a modest 2,000 square foot house generates up to 127 tons of trash. The RE Store can reuse up to 50% of that material and recycle another 48%, leaving a mere 2% to end up in a landfill or incinerator.

Since its inception, The RE Store has turned building material waste into a viable sustainable business venture that diverts close to 4 million pounds of waste per year from needless disposal while employing over 25 full time employees.

The RE Store is the muscly offspring of RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, a non-profit environmental education, advocacy, and waste reduction organization serving Northwestern Washington State.

Hear what others have to say about us

Testimonials from homeowners and contractors

Read more about The RE Store in local press and national publications

• 2010 Articles
• 2009 Articles
• 2008 Articles
• 2002-2007 Articles

Awards

• 2010 The RE Store named "Best Online Presence - Home Decor Category" by Seatte Weekly
• 2008 Ballard RE Store named "Best Way to Responsibly Update Your Home" in Seattle Weekly's Best of Seattle Issue
• 2006 The RE Store wins Mayors Award for our float entry in the 2006 Bellingham Ski to Sea Grand Parade!
• 2006 Whatcom Home and Garden Show - Best of Show
  The RE Store won Best of Show for our booth.
• 2005 "Green Globe Award"
  Leader in Recycling, Waste Prevention and Use of Recycled Materials Award
  King County Department of Natural Resources
• 2005 NW Source People's Picks Winner
  RE Store voted Seattle's favorite Salvage/eco-friendly store
• 2004 "Best Non-profit Display"
  Northwest Flower and Garden Show Seattle, WA
• 2003 "Sustainable Communities: Leadership in Business Award"
  Sustainable Seattle, Seattle, WA
• 2003 "Most Sustainable Product Exhibit Award"
  GreenWorld conference
  American Institute of Architects and the International Interior Design Association
• 2002 "Community Catalyst Award"
  Environmental Education Association of Washington
• 2000 "Governor's Award for Pollution Prevention"
  Governor Gary Locke, Olympia, WA
• 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest"
  Sustainable Northwest, Portland, OR
• 1999 "Most Innovative Waste Reduction and Recycling Program"
  Washington State Department of Ecology
• 1994 "Most Innovative Waste Reduction and Recycling Program"
  Washington State Department of Ecology

“The decisions Americans make about sustainable development are not technical decisions about peripheral matters, and they are not simply decisions about the environment. They are decisions about who we are, what we value, what kind of world we want to live in, and how we want to be remembered.”

~ John Dernbach - sustainable development author and environmental law professor