The City of Houston Building Materials Bring Us Your Reusable Construction Materials! We Will Keep It Out Of Landfills And Give It To Non-Profit Organizations For Free! 9003 North Main St. Houston, TX Open from 8:30am until 4:30pm Tuesday through Friday & Every 2 nd & 4 th Saturday of Each Month Closed on Sundays & Mondays We do not sell or give material to the general public.

Each year,Houston residents, companies, and institutions throw away as much building material as there is trash floating in the world’s oceans = 250,000 tons

The Reuse Warehouse was adopted by the Department of Solid Waste Manage ment and opened in April, 2009 on surplus City of Houston property. Since that time, approximately 500 non-profit organizations have registered with us. 90% of the diverted material is reused by the organizations. Our objective is to foster and nurture a culture of reuse and augment partnerships between community stakeholders. BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES A team of environmental analysts with the City of Houston came upon a study completed by Houston-Galveston Area Council and the Houston Advanced Research Center that revealed approximately 38% (250,000 tons) of the waste stream in the Houston area to be construction and demolition material. The team set out to see what the City could do to encourage the diversion of some of this material while providing community development opportunities.

Residents who clear their garages and yards Eco-friendly junk removal companies Large and Small Construction companies Businesses reclaiming space Solid Waste Depositories and other City Departments Deconstruction/Reuse Organizations WHO BRINGS MATERIAL?

WHO TAKES THE MATERIAL? Churches Schools Affordable Housing Homeless Shelters Transitional Housing Charitable Home Repairs Community Development Corporations and Centers Veterans Job Skills Training Medical Foundations Physical Therapy Museums Theaters Cultural Institutions Artists Animal Shelters Historic Preservation Community Gardens

Bricks, Doors, Light Fixtures, Lumber, Plywood, Cabinets, Roofing Material, Countertops, Sinks, Showers, Drywall, Shingles, Tile, Plumbing Fixtures, Tools, Stone, Soil, Light and Heavy Gauge Steel, and some bulk materials. Paint, Inefficient Appliances, Upholstered Furniture, Broken Items, Rotten Wood, Tear-Off Shingles, Pre-1978 Ballasts, Dirty Carpet, & most bulk materials. WHAT MATERIALS DO WE ACCEPT? WHAT MATERIALS DO WE NOT ACCEPT?

HOW DOES THE MATERIAL BREAK DOWN?

MATERIAL COMPOSITES OVERWHELMING QUANTITIES SPECIFIC USES CHALLENGES

HOW MUCH MATERIAL HAVE WE KEPT OUT OF LANDFILLS SINCE WE OPENED IN 2009? Approximately 2800 tons = The Roof of the Astrodome About 1% of the amount of construction material Houstonians throw away each year.

An Average Month = 40 Tons Our Biggest Month: May, 2015: 261 Tons! More Than the Statue of Liberty

PARTNERING WITH OTHER REUSE FACILITIES PROMOTING DECONSTRUCTION BOSTON, MA FT. MYERS, FL BUILDING A REUSE CULTURE: GETTING MILEAGE OUT OF COMMUNICATION JOINING PEOPLE TOGETHER

Current Centralized Donations & Collections 90 % Donation/Collection Rate 11,000 Square Feet of Covered Storage Capacity All Materials Must Be Delivered to and from the Warehouse Some Materials Are Not Permitted

Point -To - Point Collections 100 % Donation/Collection Rate Materials Are Not Transported to the Warehouse Materials Are Picked Up at the Source More Types of Material Are Permitted

DECONSTRUCTION

Deconstruction Strategy: It takes more time and a little more money up front. A trained crew and appraiser must be hired. The tax deductions more than compensate for the time and expense. Jobs are created. The material is kept out of landfills.

Oak Forest Library Deconstruction/Renovation 2010

YOUTHBUILD

WHAT HAPPENS TO MATERIAL AFTER IT IS DONATED? Box 13 Art Space The Monarch School

Habitat for Humanity Sheltering Arms The Red Cross Housing Offers Provided For Everybody (H.O.P.E.) AIDS Housing Coalition Houston Talent Yield Coalition for Veterans Small Religious Organizations Rebuilding Together Houston Basic Home Repair and Transitional Housing To Ecclesia Church From Oak Forest Library

The Redeemer Church

Magnolia Park Community Gardens Berry Elementary School HISD

The Monarch School University of Houston

The Parish School

Bay Area Ballet and Theatre Houston Festival Foundation 5th Ward C.D.C./ Dan Havel / Dean Ruck

Joyce Katherine Homer Lance Animoo Crackers

Museum ofCultural Arts Houston