Directory of Creative Reuse Centers in the United States and around the World
Creative Reuse Centers--places that collect, organize and distribute community discards for creative use--exist in many forms. Some are open to the public, others only to schools or nonprofits. Some accept individual craft stash excess, some only business overstock, scraps and seconds. Most are nonprofit, and most operate independently, though some, like RAFT,SCRAP-Portland, and several in Florida have affiliate locations.
Below are links to all the Creative Reuse Centers we have been able to find. Some have been in existence since the 70s, others are just getting started. We hope it helps the growing number of people interested in starting a center by seeing the models that exist, as well as to connect like minded people to each other. This list is also available in document form, including the taglines and start date of the organizations. Email us and we'd be happy to send it to you. Also, we love to correct broken links, out-of-date info, as well as highlight new programs--so if you have an addition or change, by all means email us at LancasterCreativeReuse@gmail.com
ALABAMA Mobile GRCMA-The Resource Place
ARIZONA Tempe Treasures for Teachers
CALIFORNIA Long Beach Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse
Los Angeles reDiscover at Smart Space
Los Angeles Trash for Teaching, Inc
Mountain View FabMo
Oakland East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
Palo Alto The ReARt Store at Whole House Building Supply
Redwood City RAFT--Main 2
Riverside Riverside Arts and ReUse Exchange
Roseville ReCREATE
Sacramento RAFT--Sacramento
San Francisco SCRAP (Scrounger's Center for Reusable Art Parts)
San Jose Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)--Main 1
Santa Barbara Art from Scrap
Vacaville Center for Imaginative Reuse
CONNECTICUT Bristol Imagine That! at the Imagine Nation Children's Museum
Hartford Scrap-it, A Creative Reuse Center
COLORADO Boulder ArtParts Creative Reuse Center
Boulder Center for Creative Reuse
Colorado Springs SCRAP UP
Denver RAFT--Colorado
D.C Washington, DC SCRAP-DC
FLORIDA Note: Address information on those in Florida that do not have a web link can be found here and here.
Bradenton Teacher's Wishing Well
Ft. Lauderdale Kids in Need Resource Center
Ft. Lauderdale Trash to Treasure
Gainsville Tools for Schools, Alachua County Waste Management Division
Interlocken Treasure Trove Depot
Jacksonville Teachers Supply Depot, Duval County Public Schools
Kissimmee A Gift for Teaching of Osceola County
Land O' Lakes Creation Station
Melbourne Beach Reusable Resources Adventure Center
Melbourne Beach Reusable Resources Association (Network of Centers)
Miami Rethink and Reuse Center
Miami Children's Resource Center
North Miami Ocean Bank Center for Eduational Materials
North Miami Teacher's Universe
Orlando A Gift for Teaching
Punta Gorda Teacher's Supply Depot
Riveria Beach Resource Depot
Sanford A Gift for Teaching--Seminole
Sanford Teacher's Supply Depot
Sarasota Choose to Reuse
Sebastian Reusable Resources Repository
St. Petersburg A Gift for Teaching, Pinellas County Free Store
Vero Beach Reusable Resources Recovery Center
GEORGIA Atlanta WonderRoot Creative Reuse (formerly Creative Reuse Georgia)
Carrollton The Scrap Bin
IDAHO Boise The ReUse Market
IOWA LeClaire Reusable Usables Creative Arts Center
ILLINOIS Champaign The I.D.E.A. Store
Chicago Creative Reuse Warehouse
INDIANA Bloomington Materials for the Arts Program, Monroe County Solid Waste
Franklin Creative ReSources
Hammond Hammond Recycling’s Art & Crafts ReUz Station
Indianapolis Teacher's Treasures
KANSAS Kansas City Recycled Materials Center, Children's Museum of Kansas
LOUISIANA New Orleans Recycle for the Arts, a program of The Green Project
MASSACHUSETTS Boston Recycle Shop, Boston Children's Museum
Cambridge Extras for Creative Learning (EXCL)
MAINE Auburn SHAREcenter
Farmington Everyone's Resource Depot
Scarborough Ruth's Reusable Resources
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor The Scrap Box
Detroit MI Arts & Scraps
Grand Rapids Learning from Scratch
Lansing Creation Station
Traverse City SCRAP--Traverse City
MINNESOTA Mankato Art Bin at the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
St. Paul Artscrap Resource Center (Art Start)
MISSOURI Crestwood, Chesterfield St. Louis Teachers Recycle Center
Bridgeton Kidsmart
St. Louis The Upcycle Exchange {Materials Market}
NORTH CAROLINA Asheville Trash , Inc.
Cary Cary Creative Center
Durham The Scrap Exchange
Hickory Resource Warehouse & Gallery
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Wemagination
NEW YORK New Windsor New Paltz Reuse Center (formerly the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange)
New York SHHHH Salvage Projects
Queens, Long Island City Materials for the Arts
Ronkonkoma, Long Island Materials Resource Center
Rochester, Lakeville and Newark Recycle Shops, at Child Care Resources Council Locations
OHIO Cincinnati Crayons to Computers
Columbus Waste Not Center
Toledo Scrap4Art
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Save it for Art
OREGON Eugene MECCA
Portland SCRAP: The School and Community Reuse Action Project
PENNSYLVANIA Lancaster Lancaster Creative Reuse That's us!
Philadelphia The Resource Exchange
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
RHODE ISLAND Providence Resources for RI Education
TEXAS Austin Austin Creative Reuse
Denton SCRAP Denton
Houston Texas Art Asylum
TENNESSEE Nashville Turnip Green Creative Reuse
VIRGINIA Richmond Stuff, Inc.
WASHINGTON Lynnwood Creation Station
WISCONSIN Sheboygan Waste Knot Sheboygan
INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE REUSE CENTERS
AUSTRALIA Marrickville Reverse Garbage Co-Op
West Perth Remida Creative Reuse Center
BELGIUM Brussels RECircle
CANADA Vancouver, BC Urban Source
Winnipeg, MB ArtsJunktion
GERMANY Hamburg ReMida
ITALY Reggio Emilia Remida
UNITED KINGDOM In the UK, they are called Scrapstores. Below is a sampling, but a directory of over NINETY (!) can be found here.
Bristol Children's Scrapstore and Artrageous
Leeds Scrap Creative Reuse
Exeter Exeter Scrapstore
Rotherham Shrodoba Scrapstore
Swindon Swindon Childrens Scrapstore
Updated January 21, 2012
Below are links to all the Creative Reuse Centers we have been able to find. Some have been in existence since the 70s, others are just getting started. We hope it helps the growing number of people interested in starting a center by seeing the models that exist, as well as to connect like minded people to each other. This list is also available in document form, including the taglines and start date of the organizations. Email us and we'd be happy to send it to you. Also, we love to correct broken links, out-of-date info, as well as highlight new programs--so if you have an addition or change, by all means email us at LancasterCreativeReuse@gmail.com
ALABAMA Mobile GRCMA-The Resource Place
ARIZONA Tempe Treasures for Teachers
CALIFORNIA Long Beach Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse
Los Angeles reDiscover at Smart Space
Los Angeles Trash for Teaching, Inc
Mountain View FabMo
Oakland East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
Palo Alto The ReARt Store at Whole House Building Supply
Redwood City RAFT--Main 2
Riverside Riverside Arts and ReUse Exchange
Roseville ReCREATE
Sacramento RAFT--Sacramento
San Francisco SCRAP (Scrounger's Center for Reusable Art Parts)
San Jose Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)--Main 1
Santa Barbara Art from Scrap
Vacaville Center for Imaginative Reuse
CONNECTICUT Bristol Imagine That! at the Imagine Nation Children's Museum
Hartford Scrap-it, A Creative Reuse Center
COLORADO Boulder ArtParts Creative Reuse Center
Boulder Center for Creative Reuse
Colorado Springs SCRAP UP
Denver RAFT--Colorado
D.C Washington, DC SCRAP-DC
FLORIDA Note: Address information on those in Florida that do not have a web link can be found here and here.
Bradenton Teacher's Wishing Well
Ft. Lauderdale Kids in Need Resource Center
Ft. Lauderdale Trash to Treasure
Gainsville Tools for Schools, Alachua County Waste Management Division
Interlocken Treasure Trove Depot
Jacksonville Teachers Supply Depot, Duval County Public Schools
Kissimmee A Gift for Teaching of Osceola County
Land O' Lakes Creation Station
Melbourne Beach Reusable Resources Adventure Center
Melbourne Beach Reusable Resources Association (Network of Centers)
Miami Rethink and Reuse Center
Miami Children's Resource Center
North Miami Ocean Bank Center for Eduational Materials
North Miami Teacher's Universe
Orlando A Gift for Teaching
Punta Gorda Teacher's Supply Depot
Riveria Beach Resource Depot
Sanford A Gift for Teaching--Seminole
Sanford Teacher's Supply Depot
Sarasota Choose to Reuse
Sebastian Reusable Resources Repository
St. Petersburg A Gift for Teaching, Pinellas County Free Store
Vero Beach Reusable Resources Recovery Center
GEORGIA Atlanta WonderRoot Creative Reuse (formerly Creative Reuse Georgia)
Carrollton The Scrap Bin
IDAHO Boise The ReUse Market
IOWA LeClaire Reusable Usables Creative Arts Center
ILLINOIS Champaign The I.D.E.A. Store
Chicago Creative Reuse Warehouse
INDIANA Bloomington Materials for the Arts Program, Monroe County Solid Waste
Franklin Creative ReSources
Hammond Hammond Recycling’s Art & Crafts ReUz Station
Indianapolis Teacher's Treasures
KANSAS Kansas City Recycled Materials Center, Children's Museum of Kansas
LOUISIANA New Orleans Recycle for the Arts, a program of The Green Project
MASSACHUSETTS Boston Recycle Shop, Boston Children's Museum
Cambridge Extras for Creative Learning (EXCL)
MAINE Auburn SHAREcenter
Farmington Everyone's Resource Depot
Scarborough Ruth's Reusable Resources
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor The Scrap Box
Detroit MI Arts & Scraps
Grand Rapids Learning from Scratch
Lansing Creation Station
Traverse City SCRAP--Traverse City
MINNESOTA Mankato Art Bin at the Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
St. Paul Artscrap Resource Center (Art Start)
MISSOURI Crestwood, Chesterfield St. Louis Teachers Recycle Center
Bridgeton Kidsmart
St. Louis The Upcycle Exchange {Materials Market}
NORTH CAROLINA Asheville Trash , Inc.
Cary Cary Creative Center
Durham The Scrap Exchange
Hickory Resource Warehouse & Gallery
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Wemagination
NEW YORK New Windsor New Paltz Reuse Center (formerly the Hudson Valley Materials Exchange)
New York SHHHH Salvage Projects
Queens, Long Island City Materials for the Arts
Ronkonkoma, Long Island Materials Resource Center
Rochester, Lakeville and Newark Recycle Shops, at Child Care Resources Council Locations
OHIO Cincinnati Crayons to Computers
Columbus Waste Not Center
Toledo Scrap4Art
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City Save it for Art
OREGON Eugene MECCA
Portland SCRAP: The School and Community Reuse Action Project
PENNSYLVANIA Lancaster Lancaster Creative Reuse That's us!
Philadelphia The Resource Exchange
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
RHODE ISLAND Providence Resources for RI Education
TEXAS Austin Austin Creative Reuse
Denton SCRAP Denton
Houston Texas Art Asylum
TENNESSEE Nashville Turnip Green Creative Reuse
VIRGINIA Richmond Stuff, Inc.
WASHINGTON Lynnwood Creation Station
WISCONSIN Sheboygan Waste Knot Sheboygan
INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE REUSE CENTERS
AUSTRALIA Marrickville Reverse Garbage Co-Op
West Perth Remida Creative Reuse Center
BELGIUM Brussels RECircle
CANADA Vancouver, BC Urban Source
Winnipeg, MB ArtsJunktion
GERMANY Hamburg ReMida
ITALY Reggio Emilia Remida
UNITED KINGDOM In the UK, they are called Scrapstores. Below is a sampling, but a directory of over NINETY (!) can be found here.
Bristol Children's Scrapstore and Artrageous
Leeds Scrap Creative Reuse
Exeter Exeter Scrapstore
Rotherham Shrodoba Scrapstore
Swindon Swindon Childrens Scrapstore
Updated January 21, 2012
