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Take the waste from construction sites and old buildings and salvage it as a profitable commodity. The rebuilding exchange is a non-profit organization in Chicago that takes the waste from construction sites and old buildings and salvages it as a profitable commodity.Focusing on sustainable building deconstruction and working with stakeholders across the private and public sector. The rebuilding exchange makes building material available to a large audience and delivers it at the fraction of the cost from what it would be on the shelves of home depot. This system repurposes what we already have within out cities and keeps tons of material from going in our landfills.
more information at http://www.rebuildingexchange.org/index.html
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