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Finding a new home for millions of pounds of industrial waste is big business for this Colorado company

By In The NoCo,
Ariel Lavery, Brad Turner
Published April 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM MDT
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repurposedMATERIALS founder Damon Carson takes large scale items from companies and helps repurpose and resell items that would normally end up in the landfill. repurposedMATERIALS helps keep millions of tons of waste out of landfills every year. And the whole thing was inspired by a conversation about billboard vinyl.
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repurposedMATERIALS founder Damon Carson takes large scale items from companies and helps repurpose and resell items that would normally end up in the landfill. repurposedMATERIALS helps keep millions of tons of waste out of landfills every year. And the whole thing was inspired by a conversation about billboard vinyl.

Recycled wooden barrels. Used steel beams. Reclaimed railroad ties.

These are the kinds of things you can find at in Lafayette. The company acquires discarded industrial materials and products and resells them instead of sending them to a landfill.

founded the business in 2011 after running two trash companies. The Lafeyette location is one of six across the country where he stores his unusual inventory and then ships it off once he finds the right buyer.

It鈥檚 Earth Week, so we鈥檙e listening back to a conversation between Damon and In the NoCo鈥檚 Brad Turner, recorded in January. Damon explained how he built the company, which he says diverted 15 million pounds of waste from landfills last year.

Check out a recent profile of the business in

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In The NoCo
皇冠网址's In The NoCo is a daily slice of stories, news, people and issues. It's a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The show brings context and insight to the stories of the day, often elevating unheard voices in the process. And because life in Northern Colorado is a balance of work and play, we celebrate the lighter side of things here, too.
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Ariel Lavery
Ariel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. She co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University鈥檚 NPR member station, and won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family鈥檚 financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
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Brad Turner
Brad Turner is an executive producer in 皇冠网址's newsroom. He manages the podcast team that makes In The NoCo, which also airs weekdays in Morning Edition and All Things Considered. His work as a podcaster and journalist has appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition, NPR Music, the PBS Newshour, Colorado Public Radio, MTV Online, the Denver Post, Boulder's Daily Camera, and the Longmont Times-Call.
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