Materials Exchanges

Materials Exchanges - Materials exchanges facilitate the exchange of materials or wastes from one party, which has no use for that material, to another party that views the materials as a valuable commodity. These facilities foster waste reduction efforts through the reuse of materials, thus eliminating the need to process the materials for recovery or disposal. These facilities are not regulated by the DEC.

List of Waste Exchange Programs
Company	Contact	Tel./FAX/E-MAIL/WEB	Material
Alaska Materials Exchange 555 Cordova Street Anchorage, AK 99501-2617	Ms. Tee Little	907-269-7586 907-269-7600 tlittle@envircon.state.ak.us	Various.
Alberta Recycle Info Line 5th Floor, Oxbridge Place 9820 - 106 Street Edmonton, AB T5K 2J6	Betty Gray	780-427-6982 780-422-5120 gov.ab.ca/env/waste/aow	Various (Materials wanted only).
American Plastics Exchange, Inc. 19150 Park Avenue Wayzata, MN 55391-3061	Bert Foster	800-746-2739 952-544-1100 www.apexq.com	Online Database of Post Industrial & Consumer Plastics.
American Salvage 9200 NW 27th Avenue Miami, FL 33147	Terry Waldron	305-691-2455 www.AmericanSalvage.com	Building Materials,, Office Furniture, Supplies, Household Goods.
AmeriCares 161 Cherry Street New Canaan, CT 06840		800-486-HELP 203-972-0116 www.americares.org	Medicines and Medical Supplies.
ARCO & BP Investment Recovery P. O. Box 196612 Anchorage, AK 99516	Adam Heath	907-659-4205 907-659-4369 pbusurplusteamleader@bp.com
Art From Scrap 302 E. Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101	Cay Sanchez	805-884-0459 805-884-1879 afs@rain.ora	Manufactured By-Products; Business Overruns, Various Materials for Art & Education.
Arts & Scraps 17820 E. Warren Detroit, MI 48224	Peg Upmeyer	313-640-4411 805-640-4422	Industrial Scraps as Art Materials.
Association for Resource Conservation 9 Bittersweet Court Centerport, NY 11721	Julie Sullivan	516-757-0894 516-757-0896 arclink@Juno.com	Surplus and Used Industrial & Commercial Materials.
Beyond Waste 607 West Sierra Avenue Cotati, CA 94931	Joel Fox	707-792-2555 www/sonic.net/-precycle precycle@sonic.ne	Used Building Materials.
British Columbia Materials Exchange (BCMEX) 225 Smithe St., Suite 201 Vancouver, BC V6B 4X7	Caroline Mackinson	604-683-6009 604-683-7255 www.rcbc.bc.ca rcbc@rcbc.bc.ca	All Types of Materials.
Building Materials Exchange 169 Lewiston Rd. Gray, ME 04039	Kathleen Scott	207-657-2957 207-657-5910	Building Materials, Paint, Furniture, Appliances, Hardware.
Building Materials Exchange 61 B Lebanon Road Sanford, ME 04073	Kathleen Scott	207-324-4574	Building Materials.
Business Material Exchange of Wisconsin Suite 100 136 West Grand Ave. Beloit, WI 53511	Susan Angell	800-364-3233 608-364-1161 www.bmex.org info@brmex.org
California Waste Exchange Dept. of Toxic Substance Control P.O. Box 806 Sacramento, CA 9581-20806	Ken Payne	916-327-4502 916-322-1003 KPAYNE@DTSC.CA.GOV	Hazardous Materials.
Canadian Chemical Exchange 900 Blondin Street Ste-Adele, Quebec J8B2R1	Philippe LaRoche	800-561-6511 450-229-5344	Chemicals, Resins, Solvents, Pharmaceuticals, Etc.
Carpel Video 429 East Patrick Street Frederic, MD 21701	Andy Carpel	800-238-4300 301-694-9510 www.carpelvideo.com	Used Videotapes.
Colorado Materials Exchange (COMEx) Univ. of Colorado - Boulder Campus Box 207 Boulder, CO 80309-0207	Jack Debell	303-492-8307 303-492-1897 www.colorado.edu debell@spot.color
Community Resource Center 412 Metroplex Drive Nashville, TN 37211	Laura Ellen Truelove	615-781-1036 615-781-1037 crc@telalink.net	New/Used Goods, Furniture, Equipment, Office Supplies, Non-Hazardous Materials.
Computers for Schools Suite 30 470 Nautilaus Street La Jolla, CA 92037		800-939-6000 619-456-9918 www.detwiler.org info@detwiler.org	Computers, Monitors, Printers, & Peripherals. National Program.
Costume Collection 17th Floor 601 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001	Gregory A. Poplyk	212-989-5855 212-206-0922 costume@tdf.org	Costume & Period Clothing.
Creative Re-Use/North Bay P.O. Box 1802 Santa Rosa, CA 95402-1802	Susan Richter	707-546-3340	All Types Business Waste Materials Equipment & Supplies For Arts and Education.
Direct Relief International 27 S. La Patera Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93117-3251	Anthoula Randopoulos	805-964-4767 805-681-4838 800-676-1638 DRI@rain.org	Medical Supplies, Equipment (new & used) & Pharmaceuticals.
East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse 6713 San Pablo Avenue Oakland, CA 94608	Judy Ellsworth	510-547-6470 510-655-6536	Art and Educational Materials for Creative Reuse - School Projects.
ERC Community Warehouse, Inc. 21428 NY 22 Hoosick Falls, NY 12090	Steve Davis	518-686-7540 518-686-7863 Erccw@aol.com	Household Furniture, Appliances, Office Equipment & Furniture, Miscellaneous.
Florida Waste Exchange 2848 N. State Road #7 Hollywood, FL 33021	Maurice Baum	954-967-0011 954-989-3377 1-877-663-5336 glamol@bellsouth.
Furnish a Future 20 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY 11201	Marjory Rice	718-875-5353 718-875-5448 PFTHFAF@AOL.COM	Furniture and Other Household Items in Serviceable Condition.
Garbage Reincarnation Box 1375 Santa Rosa, CA 95402	Brian Belsardi	707-795-3660 707-792-2565 www.garbage.org
Gifts In Kind International 333 North Fairfax Street Alexandria, VA 22314		703-836-2121 703-549-1481 www.giftsinkind.org	Building Supplies, Office Equipment & Supplies, Clothing.
Goodwill Industries International 9200 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814		301-530-6500 301-530-1516 www.goodwill.org	Household Goods and Clothing.
GreenDisk Suite 100 16398 NE 85th Street Redmond, WA 98052	Joan Beschen	425-883-9165 425-883-0425 jbeschen@greendisk.com	Used Software Packages, Computer Disks, CDS, Videos & Tapes.
Hawaii Materials Exchange P.O. Box 121 Wailuku, HI 96793	Joy Webster	808-572-6668 808-572-4817 www.himex.org sjoy@maui.net	All Types of Materials.
Hippo Hardware and Trading Company 1040 E. Burnside Portland, OR 97214	Steve Oppenheim	503-213-1444	Hardware, Lighting, Plumbing, House Parts.
Industrial Material Exchange Service 1021 North Grand Ave., East P.O. Box 19276 Springfield, IL 62794- 9276	Diane Shockey	217-782-0450 217-782-9142 epa8605@epa.state.il.us	All Types of Materials - Hazardous & Non-Hazardous.
Interchange Materials Exchange Service Hamilton Co. Env. Services 250 William Howard Taft Cincinnati, OH 45219	Holly Miller	513-946-7705 holly.miller@does.hamilton-co.org	Non-Hazardous Materials.
Los Angeles County Materials Exchange 900 South Fremont Avenue Alhambra, CA 91803	Robert C. Barker	626-458-5167 626-458-3593 http://dpw.co.la.ca.us/epd/ lacomax/
Mahoning Valley Materials Exchange Youngstown University CERTT 1 University Place Youngstown, OH 44555	Marcia Barr	330-742-2742 330-742-1542 certt@hotmail.com	All Types.
Maine Materials Exchange 93 Maquoit Drive Freeport, ME 04032	Harold E. Arndt	207-865-6621 207-865-6478 harndt@max.com h.arndt@juno.com	All Types of Materials. Reusable & Recyclable Commodities.
Maryland Food Bank 241 Franklintown Road Baltimore, MD 21223	Bill Ewing	410-947-0404 410-947-1853 wewing@secondharvest.org	All Grocery Products.
MAT-EX - GLOW Solid Waste 420 E. Main Street Batavia, NY 14020	Peggy Grayson	800-836-1154 716-344-4037 glow@eznet.net	Non-Hazardous Reusable Materials.
Materials for the Arts 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd Floor Long Island City, NY 11101	Susan Glass, Director	718-729-3001 718-729-3941 info@mfta.org	All Types Except Clothing, Beds and Bedding.
Minnesota Materials Exchange Alliance Suite 207 1313 5th Street, S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55414-4504	E. Hudson/B. Nesheim	612-627-4555 612-627-4769 www.mnexchange.org	All Types - Non-Residential.
Montana Materials Exchange MSU Extension Service P.O. Box 173580 Bozeman, MT 59717	M. Vogel/Lara Dando	406-994-3451 406-994-5417 montana.edu/wwwated/mme uedld@Montana.Edu	Non-Hazardous Reusable Materials.
Morris Co. MUA's Material Exchange Program P. O. Box 370 Mendham, NJ 07945- 0370	Laura Macpherson	973-829-8006 973-285-8397 greengal@njhazwaste.com
NAEIR Suite 111 315 South 48th Street Tempe, AR 85281	Cruz Ramos, Vice President of Corporate Relations	800-289-4551 602-736-0417 car@naeir.org	Many Types.
Nebraska Materials Exchange Program Keep Nebraska Beautiful 3201 Pioneers Blvd. Lincoln, NE 68502	Jane Polson	800-486-4562 402-486-4563 www.knb.org jpolson@knb.org	All Types of Materials.
New Hampshire Materials Exchange 122 Main St. Concord, NH 03301	Mark Toussaint	603-224-1517 603-224-2872 exchange@wastecapnh.org www.wastecapnh.or	Any Materials.
NY Wa$teMatch c/o MEDP City College of New York Steinman Hall, Rm 102 140th Street & Convent Avenue NY, NY 10031	MaryEllen Etienne Managing Director MEDP & NY WasteMatch	212-650-8896 info@wastematch.org	Various Materials.
NJ Industrial Waste Information Exchange 216 West State St. Trenton, NJ 08608	William Payne	609-989-7888 609-989-9696 www.njchamber.com
Nova Scotia Materials Exchange P.O. Box 2528 Station M Halifax, NS B3J 3N5		902-420-3467 902-424-5334 clean.ns.ca/materials- exchange/wxh. cns@clean.ns.ca
Ohio's Materials Exchange P. O. Box 70 Mount Vernon, OH 43050	Diane Mellinger	888-718-6639 614-397-7124 tryomex@aol.com
Olmsted County Materials Exchange 2122 Campus Drive, S.E. Rochester, MN 55904-4744	Jack Stansfield	507-285-8231 507-287-2320 olmstedcounty.com/public works/solidwastereduction/wr	All Types of Materials.
Ontario Waste Materials Exchange 63 Polson St., 2nd Floor Toronto, ON M5A 1A4	Victoria Heppell	416-778-4199 416-778-5624 www.owe.org owe@oceta.on.ca	All Materials.
Orphan Chemical Recycling Program Bowling Green State Univ. Bowling Green, OH 43403	Dave Heinlen	419-372-2173 419-372-2194 bgsu.edu/offices/envhs/ orphmain.htm daveh@bgnet.bgsu.
Portland Chemical Consortium P. O. Box 751 Portland, OR 97207- 0751	Larry Pardun	503-725-4273 503-725-3888 adm.pdx.edu/user/pcc	Laboratory Chemicals.
ProMax Ecology Action P.O. Box 1188 Santa Cruz, CA 95061-1188	Victor Aguiar	831-426-5925 831-425-1404 promax@ecoact.org	Clean, Reusable Items and Materials.
RAFT - Resource Area for Teachers 638 West California Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086	Mary Simon	408-524-9780 408-524-9788 www.raft.net	For Reuse Schools/Non-Profits.
Recycle Ann Arbor (RAA) 2420 South Industrial Highway Ann Arbor, MI 48104		734-662-6288 734-662-7749 hvcn.org/info/ecaa/RAA.htlm	Building Materials, Office Furniture & Household Goods.
Recycle North 266 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401	Tom Longstreth Executive Director	802-658-4143 802-658-0543 rnorth@together.net	Household Items, Furniture, Computers, Electronics, Appliances.
Rejuvenation House Parts 1100 SE Grand Avenue Portland, OR 97214	Bill Serdar	503-238-1900 503-230-2656 salvage@rejuvenation.com	Doors, Windows, Tubs, Sinks, Hardware, Lighting, Architect.
Renew Resource Exchange Auckland Reg. Council Private Bag 920 Auckland, New Zealand	Jocelyn Rennie	640-936-2000 640-936-2155 arc.govt.nz/eviron/waste/157 jrennie@arc.govt.	Various.
RENEW - MC 112 Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission P.O. Box 13087 Austin, TX 78711-3087	Hope Castillo	512-239-3171 512-239-3165 hcastill@tnrcc.state.tx.us	All Types of Materials.
Reuse Development Organization, Inc. (ReDO) P.O. Box 441363 Indianapolis, IN 46244		317-631-5395 317-631-5396 www.redo.org info@redo.org	Clearinghouse for all Types of Materials.
ReUze Building Centre 1210 Birchmount Road Unit 1A Scarborough, Ontario M1P2C3	Bob Sawatsky, President	416-750-4000 416-750-4343 reuze@istar.ca	Used Building Materials.
San Luis Obispo Education Resources Exchange 1649 17th Street Los Osos, CA 93402	Mary Reeder	805-528-5402 805-528-5402 mer7@juno.com	Reuse for Schools - Non-Profit.
Saskatchewan Waste Materials Exchange 515 Henderson Drive Regina, Saskatchewan S4N5XI	Cindy Jackson	306-787-9388 306-787-8811 Jackson@src.sk.ca 306 787-2295 #3
Scrap Exchange 1058 West Club Blvd. Northgate Mall Durham, NC 27701	Pat Hoffman	919-286-2559	Various Materials for Art and Education, Reusable Industrial Waste.
SCRAPBOX 581 State Circle Ann Arbor, MI 48108	Karen Ensminger	734-994-4420	Recyclable Items for Kids' Crafts.
Second Harvest Suite 4 116 South Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60603	Business Development Dept.	800-771-2303 312-263-4357 dmkeegan@secondharvest.org	Food and Grocery Products.
Sonoma County Materials Exchange Room 117A 575 Administration Drive Santa Rosa, CA 95403	Karina Chilcott	707-565-3668 707-565-3701 www.recyclenow.org/sonomax/ sonomax@ap.net
South Dayton Waste Exchange 3848 Ellsworth Drive Beavercreek, OH 45431	Chris Halley	937-429-5998 937-429-5998 www.sdwe.com sdwe@infinet.com	Various.
South Carolina Waste Exchange Route l, Box 388A Prosperity, SC 29127	Dough Woodson	803-364-1008 803-364-0667
Southeast Waste Exchange UNC Charolotte, 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223 0001	Maxie L. May, Director	704-547-2270 704-547-3178 mlmay@email.uncc.edu	All Types of Materials.
Southeast Minnesota Recycler's Exchange SEMREX Olmstead Co. PW 2122 Campus Dr. Rochester, MN 55904	Terra Johnson, Director	507-252-0750 507-252-9536 www.semrex.com
Southern New England Materials Exchange R.I. Resource Recovery Corp. 65 Shun Pike Johnston, RI 02919-4512	David Goldberg	401-942-1430 401-946-5174 www.rirrc.org recycle@loa.com	Various.
Southern Waste Information Exchange (SWIX) P. O. Box 960 Tallahassee, FL 32302	Gene Jones	800-441-SWIX 850-386-4321 www.wastexchange.org
Tennessee Materials Exchange 105 Student Services Bldg. University of Tenn. Knoxville, TN 37996-0213	Richard Buggeln	423-974-3018 423-974-1528 buggeln@utk.edu	All Materials.
The Millennium Exchange, Ltd. P. O. Box 4875 Annapolis, MD 21403	William Barkley	410-280-2080 410-280-0025 www.mmex.com trade@mmex.com
The Loading Dock, Inc. 2523 Gwynns Falls Parkway Baltimore, MD 21216	Leslie Kirkland	410-728-3625 410-728-3633 www.loadingdock.org kirkland@loadingd	Surplus Building Supplies.
The Interchange Hamilton Co. Dept. Env. Ser. 250 William Howard Street Cincinnati, OH 45219-2660	Holly Miller	513-333-4705 513-763-4614 Holly.Miller@does.hamilton-co.org
The Children's Museum RECYCLE Shop 300 Congress Street Boston, MA 02210-1034	Corey Smigliani	617-426-6500 617-426-1944 smigliani@bostonkids.org dangelo@bostonkid	Arts, Crafts, Science, & Theatrical Supplies.
The Reuse People of Alameda Co., Inc. 2615 Davis Street San Leandro, CA 94577	Theodore C. Reiff	510-567-8525	Building Materials.
The ReStore P. O. Box 885 Montpelier, VT 05601	Connie Leach Bisson	802-229-1930 recycle@sover.net	Commercial Surplus, Recycled Art & Education Supplies.
The Reuse People, Inc. 477 Marina Parkway Chula Vista, CA 91910	Theodore C. Reiff	619-427-0430 619-427-0020	Building Materials.
The Surplus Exchange 1107 Hickory Kansas City, MO 64101	Rick Caplan	816-472-0444 816-472-8105 ricse@crn.org	Business Equipment, Computers.
Tri-State RE-use Center 3220 Western Pike Hancock, MD 21750	Hope Cucina	301-678-5503 301-678-7841 homefire@nfis.com
United States Book Exchange 2969 West 25th Street Cleveland, OH 44113	Jean Marie Zubal	216-241-6960 216-241-6966 http://www.usbe.com jean@usbe.com	Used Books and Periodicals.
Ventura Co. Materials Exchange (VCMAX) 800 S. Victoria Ave. Ventura, CA 93009	Lorraine Timmons	805-648-9226 805-648-9233 swmd@rain.org
Vermont Business Materials Exchange P.O. Box 430 Newfane, VT 05345	Ellen Roffman, Manager	800-895-1930 802-365-7996 ppress@sover.net	All Types of Commercial & Industrial Wastes.
Wastewise 36 Armstrong Ave. Georgetown, ON L7G 4R9	Debbie Smart	905-873-8122 905-873-8123	Reusable Materials.
Western Massachusetts Materials Exchange Center for Ecological Tech. 26 Market Street Northampton, MA 01060	Jim Desmond	413-586-7350 413-586-7351 cetnoho@aol.com	All Types of Materials.