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Problems with Salvage Sheds • Conflict between users over items, • Conflict between staff trying to run a site & users who are simply waiting for desirable items, • Conflict when users see staff taking items or are given ‘gifts’ by site patrons, • Conflict when over eager-scavengers approach donors before they unload, • Conflict when the item in the truck is not really being donated but scavengers are reaching in, • Conflict between staff & donors over where questionable items should go…………. • SO-- WHY BOTHER?
Salvage Sheds • They are very popular and well used • One study of weights of items one weekend showed that over 60 tons a year were diverted • People get items they need that thrift shops may not want or can no longer accept for resale. • E.g. Toys are now prohibited from thrift stores due to lead paint issues stemming from Chinese made toys but now extending to all toys…….
Page 1 and 2: How Orange County, NC Developed Reu
Page 3 and 4: Reuse began at Solid Waste Convenie
Page 5 and 6: Typical Monday at the Shed
Page 7 and 8: Salvage Sheds • Formal policies e
Page 9: The disclaimer
Page 13 and 14: Pete Hendricks led all four deconst
Page 15 and 16: Wood with grade ‘mark’ BUT not
Page 17 and 18: Structural use had to be ‘overbui
Page 19 and 20: Wood was auctioned off too, on “G
Page 21 and 22: Interior uses for some structural f
Page 23 and 24: Scavenging at the C&D Landfill •

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