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The Scrap Box

581 State Circle
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
(734) 994-0012
http://www.comnet.org/scrapbox

Organization Overview

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Sustainable Business Practices

The Scrap Box is a non-profit community resource center serving as a conduit for companies and manufacturers to re-use and re-distribute their unwanted items to the public as an inexpensive source of unusual materials. Their store is filled with an ever-changing inventory of unique materials for creative re-use by crafters, artists, teachers and children. They naturally act as a conduit for other companies to reuse and redistribute their discarded materials. Their Materials Procurement staff member goes to a variety of manufacturers and businesses and encourages them to separate their usable items from their trash. Another employee makes samples and idea pages that are on display around the store to help people think about how they can re-use what would otherwise be trash. When a customer purchases separately priced merchandise, it is packed in once-used paper and plastic bags. The Scrap Box now also offers on-site evaluations to facilities to identify donations and provide free pick-up of these materials. As a result of their superior waste reduction activities, The Scrap Box was awarded a 2002 Honorable Mention for Environmental Excellence in Waste Reduction and Recycling, the highest environmental awards bestowed by Washtenaw County Government.