The Austin Materials Marketplace is an online platform allowing businesses and organizations to connect and find reuse and recycling solutions for waste and by-product materials.
The program aims to create a closed-loop, collaborative network of businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs where one organization’s hard-to-recycle waste and by-products becomes another organization’s raw material. in addition to diverting waste from landfills, these recovery activities generate significant cost savings, energy savings, and create new jobs and business opportunities.
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Business Led
The platform provides a safe, secure and controllable tool for your business. Solutions in the marketplace have true triple-bottom-line benefits; creating economic value that's also good for the environment and the community.
Technology Enabled
The Marketplace uses a secure online platform, the Rheaply Resource Exchange Platform, for locating and exchanging materials in a connected reuse network. And it works on all your devices.
Award-winning
The Materials Marketplace has won awards from the World Economic Forum, Environmental Leader, and the International Economic Development Council.
Community Driven
Hundreds of local businesses - small and large, non-profits, educational institutions and community organizations share resources through the program.
Economic and Environmental Impact
The Austin Materials Marketplace program has broken down barriers to cross-industry collaboration and has helped companies identify opportunities to minimize waste and create efficiencies.
Since the launch of the program in 2014, the Austin Materials Marketplace has created some fantastic success stories and impressive impact metrics.
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How it Works and How to Join
The Materials Marketplace enables participating organizations and project staff to easily post materials available or desired, identify reuse opportunities, and exchange underutilized materials. Hundreds of companies - large and small - academic institutions, non-profits and entrepreneurs are using the Materials Marketplace around the world.
