Success Stories (click to view)

Generator: Austin Eastciders
Receivers: Taylor Farm
Material Diverted: lumber
Amount of Materials: 1,000lbs
Total Savings and Value Creation: $2,000

Generator: Build A Sign
Receivers: Austin Creative Reuse
Material Diverted: flag fabric, canvas, vinyl, sticker, gator board, and mesh scrap.
Amount of Materials: 443lbs as of December '17

Generator: Production Glue
Receivers: Ian's Giving Garden & Frutas Frescas, Open Arms, The Museum of Human Achievement, Eden's Cove Farm, Farm-1-1, Green Gate Farms/New Farm Institute, Austin Creative Reuse, Austin Community College
Material Diverted: picnic tables, rugs, outdoor furniture, shade sails, canopies, retail counters, baskets, bar stools, serving cart, clothes rack, towel rack, equipment, and more!
Amount of Materials: 1,371 cubic feet
Total Savings and Value Creation to date: $10,613
 

Generator: Austin Transportation Department
Receiver: Hackstarz and R2 Corp
Material Diverted: Parking Pay Stations
Amount of Materials: 2,645lbs
Total Savings and Value Creation to date: $4,311

Generator: Smarter Sorting
Receiver: Habitat ReStore
Material Diverted: Household Hazardous Waste
Amount of Materials: 13,000lbs to date
Total savings and value creation to date: $25,000

Generator: Austin Business Recycling
Receiver: Gardopia Gardens
Material Diverted: buckets
Amount of Materials: 105 buckets
Total savings and value creation to date: $550

Generator: Quality Seafood Market
Receiver: Munkebo Farm
Material Diverted: Oyster Shells
Amount of Materials: 3,000lbs
CO2 avoided: 0.7 tons

Generator: Granite Recyclers Austin
Receiver: Compost Coalition
Material Diverted: Granite Dust
Amount of Materials: 20lbs

Generator: Aspire Food Group
Receiver: Eden’s Cove Farm
Material Diverted: Cricket feed and nesting habitat materials
Amount of Materials to date: 7,470lbs
Value Creation and Savings to date: $13,000

Generator: Apto Solutions
Receiver: Liquis Inc
Material Diverted: telecommunication vaults
Amount of Materials: 554 cu feet
Value Creation and Savings to date: $thousands

Generator: Johnson’s Backyard Garden
Receiver: Ian’s Giving Garden
Material Diverted: drip irrigation tape
Amount of Materials: 3,000 feet

Generator: Strange Land Brewery
Receiver: Bedford Farm
Material Diverted: spent brewery grain
Amount of Materials to date: thousands of pounds

Generator: The Natural Gardener
Receiver: Johnson’s Backyard Garden
Material Diverted: cornmeal
Amount of Materials: 3,000lbs