Michigan Nonprofit Uses Building Scraps for New Housing

Bay Area Recycling for Charities has been helping those in need build homes since 2008.

And they don't just build homes - they construct them with some of the 40 percent of construction waste that heads to landfills every year. Bay Area Recycling deconstructs home rather than demolish and build new. 

A reconstruction project can save 25 to 50 percent on the costs of building materials, depending upon what is found during the process.

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