repurposedMATERIALS Plays Second Life Matchmaker

Current ideas about sustainability, modernity and creativity are crossing paths in increasingly innovative ways. This sustainably creative spirit has given rise to organizations and companies that are making it their mission to champion one or all of the three R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle – in creative business models that have the power to attract customers and participants from all industries and walks of life. One such company is repurposedMATERIALS, which gathers used materials before they hit the landfill for sale to customers who can give those materials a second life in a new industry. repurposedMATERIALS Founder and President Damon Carson defines its namesake term, repurposed materials, as byproducts and waste that have value “as is” to a second, unrelated industry. The company believes that we’ve come a long with since recycling was introduced for curbside pickup, and that repurposing on a larger platform will take sustainable materials management …