When you visit The Resource Exchange with our pretty fabrics, unique trinkets, and vintage pieces, it might be easy to forget that all of the materials in our store were once considered waste. We are a non profit dedicated to saving reusable materials from landfill, but we still know that tons of reusable and recyclable supplies still get “thrown away” everyday.  So along with setting up the pretty and glamorous things from film and theatre at our new location, it was also important to us to set up our waste area the re way.

“There is no away,” a favorite quote of our Executive Director Karyn Gerred, is written on top of our trash bucket as a reminder of where our waste actually goes and an encouragement to not only reuse and recycle, but to also purchase products that result in little waste from their packaging.