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Vintage Furniture Manufacturing (Summer '05)
Like fine wine, this furniture improves with age.
A Barrel of Opportunities (Winter '05)
Used wooden barrels have many potential uses.
Lizland: Functional and Dysfunctional Art
(Fall '04)
Liz Mamorsky makes "anthropomorphic and zoomorphic"
sculpture from reused materials.
Sitting on the Fence
(Summer '04)
Harvey Keys of Josswood Designs accepts 10 to 20 tons of fence board and
wood windows each month to create custom furniture with the patina of age.
Waste: The Final Frontier
(Spring '04)
Los Angeles freelance cinema propmaker Peter Miro who makes miniatures and
movie props from found objects.
Discovery Science Center for Children
(Winter '04)
The Discovery Science Center for Children provides an innovative, hands-on
experience for children utilizing used museum displays from the Lake County
Fair.
RePercussion (Fall '03)
RePercussion is not your ordinary band—it is a street drumming team in
Pasadena that uses found or used objects as instruments.
Broken Tile, Not Obsolete (Summer '03)
Monterey Ceramic Tile & Marble, Inc., Rosemead, California, produces a large
amount of broken tile which is reused by future interior design students.
Old Fences No Barrier To Innovative
Business! (Spring '03)
Dilapidated fencing can be reused with a new purpose, thanks to Absolute Conservation Applied
in Sutter, California.
Mannequin Madness (Winter '03)
Judi Henderson, owner of Mannequin Madness, Oakland, California, has built
an entire business around salvaging used and unwanted mannequins.
Turning Entertainment into Education Through
Reuse (Fall '02)
Kenter Canyon Charter School gets a new library
from the Craftsman-style building that starred in the movie, Life as a
House.
Shedding a Little Light on Reuse
(Summer '02)
Creating stylish, functional items for your home out of
non-functioning, space-demanding lamps.
Turn the Tables! (Spring '02)
Ideas to salvage, restore, and update old
outdated tables and other discarded items into new functional tables.
Reuse is for the Birds! (Winter '02)
Making decorative birdhouses and feeders out of materials that would
otherwise be discarded.
Not Scraps, but New Beginnings (Fall '01)
White Eagle, a
manufacturer of dazzling gift items, strives to manufacture the creations
from reused and recycled materials.
Solar Cookers - What a Bright Idea!
(Summer '01)
The history of solar cooking is explored, as well as
instructions to make your own solar cooker.
A Card From Every Occasion (Spring
'01)
A variety of ideas exist for reusing old greeting cards.
Burlapping the Profits (Winter
'01)
Several entrepreneurs find creative ways of reusing burlap bags,
ranging from mulch to fashion.
The Green Bank: Good for the Air, Neighborhoods, and
the Landfill! (Fall '00)
The Green Bank was started in 1997 by the Garden
Council and the L.A. Conservation Corps to help support community gardens through the
donation of tools and gardening supplies.
It's A Pedal Revolution! Bicycle Mechanics at
Work, Where the Pedal Meets the Road (Summer '00)
A San Francisco reuse store
specializes in bicycle repair while providing job training skills for homeless youth ages
7 to 22.
Sculpture Fabricated from 20th Century By-Products
(Spring '00)
A Southern California artist incorporates scrap materials into his wildly
creative style, blending artistic inventiveness and reuse.
The City of Escalon...Acquires the Golden Gate
Bridge!! (Winter '00)
The small agricultural town of Escalon, Just east of Manteca, is reusing a guardrail from
the historic bridge in a new bike trail along State Route 120 as a result of an
"available" ad placed in CalMAX by an Oakland scrap metal dealer.
Alameda County Computer Resource Center Gives New Life
To Old Computers (Fall '99)
A successful nonprofit takes corporate and miscellaneous "junk"
electronics and transforms them into 30 to 50 Pentium-level systems per week for reuse by
nonprofit organizations, schools, libraries, economically disadvantaged individuals, and
developing countries.
Such a Deal--Save Money and Landfill Space!
(Summer '99)
The Department of General Service's Surplus Property Program receives, stores, and
reissues salvaged and surplus property to State agencies, political subdivisions,
assistance organizations, and the general public.
Demolition, Deconstruction, and Rebuilding at Mather
Air Force Base (Spring '99)
Demolition and building of housing at closed military base using salvaged materials.
C&D Waste Reduction Plan Results in High
Diversion for City (Winter '99)
Demolition of Newark, California shopping center results in nearly 3,000 tons of diverted
material.
Brewing Up New Opportunities in Material Reuse (Fall
'98)
Furniture designed and built from reused wood, most notably, a bar for a brewery.
Blueprint For Success (Summer '98)
A company obtained used blueprints through CalMAX to create a line of stationery products.
Printer Closes Loop (Spring '98)
Through CalMAX, a Sacramento printing company saves big money by receiving used wrapping
pallets from a manufacturer's warehouse instead of buying them new.
A Local Materials Exchange in the Heart
of Sonoma County (Winter '98)
SonoMax—an excellent example of how a county can reduce waste while simultaneously
stimulating the economy.
L.A. Shares--A Public Private Partnership
(Fall '97)
Donors who utilize the nonprofit organization, L.A. Shares, save on their waste disposal
costs, can use the donation as a tax deduction, and can contribute to their community.
Rummaging Around Northern CA (Summer
'97)
This free newspaper informs readers about great places to shop for secondhand goods,
including surplus and salvage items in the Bay Area and beyond, with everything from
"clothing to computers" and "furniture to food."
Military Base Deconstruction (Mar/Apr
'97)
Several entrepreneurs who are making a living salvaging materials from base closures are
operating businesses and creating local jobs in the process.
From The Inside (Jan/Feb '97)
A reuse program in Alameda county has had a 45 percent reuse rate of all office furniture
that comes through their shop and have even found a use for old carpeting by (re)using it
to help cure newly poured cement.
It's In The Bag (Nov/Dec '96)
Faze II Recycling has come up with a great idea on to reuse grain sacks by converting
them into multi-purpose bags for lunches, shopping, carrying books, laundry, and sports
equipment.
Pedaling Profits (Sept/Oct '96)
A nonprofit organization employing developmentally disabled adults disassembles old
bicycle parts and sends the components to Resource Revival in Oregon, where a group of
artists create a variety of functional items, from art to attire.
Creative Hospital Programs (May/June
'96)
Hospitals are reducing waste and simultaneously providing needed resources to schools,
other groups in the community, and less-developed countries by donating used computers,
microscopes, and medical equipment.
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