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Welcome
to our guide for reuse services and reuse ideas for Kansas City.
Please feel free to use, borrow, and steal the ideas that you see inside
these pages. Quite frankly that is
our hope but
we do ask you to tell others about us and
of this guide.
At The Surplus Exchange we are often asked
why we dedicate our energies to reusing furniture and electronic equipment.
The simple answer is because it is so easy to do, a
chair is a chair, and a table is a table and so on — you get the idea.
But the real answers are far more complex. Communities need to fully
receive the total benefit each piece of equipment, furniture, clothing
item, etc. has to offer. To do less
than all we can burdens the less fortunate within a given community, wastes
financial resources and places unneeded stress on our environment.
The
Surplus Exchange has worked
over the last 16 years to take all-usable but unwanted-office furniture that we
can get and to supply it to the Kansas City nonprofit community.
While we have been successful in this mission we also recognized some
time ago that
many of our activities were dedicated to finding responsible solutions for all
those �extra� items that come in with the �nice stuff� that would be
wanted by the nonprofit community. In
pursuit of finding these environmentally sound solutions we developed an
environmental vision of the importance
of the activity of reuse. Somewhere early along the way we recognized that without
these efforts literally tens and tens of thousands of consumer and business
electronics and furniture would have been directly sent into the landfills
surrounding Kansas City.
We
are but one organization, we hope that through the development of this reuse
guide that we can start a tidal wave of businesses and community residents
making a personal investment into the practice of reuse.
Just think, if every unwanted (but still highly functional item) was
reused by someone who did want it, how much money could be saved by not buying
all new items. Not to mention the
amazing achievements we could create for lessening the amount of potentially
hazardous items entering our landfills.
Together
we will make a difference.
If your company is not listed on the Reuse guide, click on the
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Promoting
reuse as a means of preventing waste, improving our communities and increasing
the material, educational and occupational well-being of our citizens.