Community Forklift: Surplus, Salvaged, and Green Building Materials

About 50% of the waste stream is construction materials. One of the reasons I am a historic preservationist is that it is so wasteful to demolish and destroy a building. Community Forklift is a new organization, based in Edmonston, Maryland (in the Greater Hyattsville area) that salvages and resells such materials.
The demolition of this building at 4th and Morse Streets NE, Washingotn, DC, started in late April and is still underway in the first week of July.

Recently, the Washington Times ran a nice article about the organization, "Salvaging one man's junk."

Store hours are Thursday through Saturday 8am - 4pm, and Wednesday noon - 7 pm. Directions and Map to Store which is located at 4671 Tanglewood Drive, Edmonston, MD 20781.

I have added a badge of the organization to the right sidebar since I am a board member.

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