LETTER

Reincarnating waste

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I’m a tree hugger/nature lover. Since I was five years old, I have been daydreaming about how to help. I believe I have figured out how I can make an impact. I’m proud not ashamed to take materials from construction/ renovation dumpsters and make them into useful things. I see it first hand, there is an outrageous amount of good materials that are trucked to the landfill everyday from these dumpsters. Just within a mile radius of my house, it’s ridiculous. The contractors I talk to don’t like to do it, but they don’t have time or immediate uses for the materials they toss in the dumpster. The “Reclaimed Lumber” industry focuses on barns and old factories where there is larger amounts of high quality wood in one place. This beautiful dumpster wood is trucked to the landfill in small, medium, sometimes large quantities everyday. I’ve built many things for our family with these materials that would have rotted in the landfill. They seem better than new things.

I’m starting a business. I won’t be shipping anything. Shipping things across the country that are made of waste seems to kill the eco factor. Instead I hope to develop a profitable business model, products, best practices for safely and legally acquiring this material and a sales platform (an improved/more expensive version of the current website that I made) that will all be free to use/copy for others that share this passion. The dream is to help enable other handy people to find waste, build with it and sell it, measurably reducing the need for new lumber and steel. This would be flexible work that helps reduce waste which helps everything on this planet. Can you help me get this going!!?? www.reincarnationcorporation.com.
Jeremy Marshik
Kingfield

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