If you plan on doing some remodeling at your home, you may want to check the ReStore for materials before heading to a regular store.
Taking old stuff from one person's house, making it new in yours. We're going green at Habitat for Humanity in Greenville.
“It keeps the stuff out of the landfill as well it goes to a great cause.”
Tom Sawyer knows his stuff when it comes to home stores. He ran a large home improvement store for many years and now runs this "re" store.
“As contractors or homeowners themselves are doing remodeling, taking things out of their homes, we can re sell those items,” Sawyer says.
That's what the ReStore is...a place to find, well...
“You can find pretty much anything...household items, couches and we also have appliances. We also have construction material so you can work on your home and fix up from siding to coal lumber, whatever you need.”
Tools, sinks, chairs, cribs...all re used with the profits going to a good cause.
“All revenue generated from here will then go towards building homes for low income families,” explains Sawyer.
Even larger retail stores get in on the act.
“A lot of times they will donate product that's brand new, never been used...they just get the tax write off and it actually helps the consumer which then generates revenue for us.”
“I think we've all become aware in the last few years of the need for us to be environmentally friendly.”
Monroe Free, president of Habitat for Humanity Greenville, says it's all about going green.
“We feel at habitat that it's important for us to be as environmentally friendly as we can. That's good for the whole community in fact it's good for the whole world,” says Free.
For more information on the ReStore in Greenville, click here.
Some of the new items donated by retailers such as Lowes and Home Depot are sold for a fraction of the price you pay at their store. If you have a go green idea, email us here.
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