Environmental Impact - Better Futures Minnesota

Duluth Homes Condemned But Value Not Forgotten

24 Sep 2020 Community Impact, Environmental Impact, News & Events

“A “before” picture of the sagging house stood on a placard in the front yard as St. Louis County used the process on display to highlight its collaboration with Better Futures Minnesota, which strives to save old construction materials from being discarded into landfills. “We believe fervently that climate change is real,” Steve Thomas, founder…

Minnesota’s landfill problem: What can be done?

7 Feb 2017 Environmental Impact, Policy

rx online Across the world, forward-thinking cities, municipalities, and lawmakers are thinking about landfill waste in new ways. In July, for example, Portland, Ore. became the first city in the country to ensure that valuable materials from demolished houses are salvaged for reuse instead of crushed and landfilled. Here in the Twin Cities, landfilling is becoming a growing…

Deconstruction and reuse can offset CO2 emissions in Minnesota

14 Mar 2016 Environmental Impact, Policy

rx online A 2015 Yale University study shows that 12.8 percent of total materials in landfills is construction and demolition waste. Of those building materials, nearly 80 percent could have been recycled or reused. Better Futures Minnesota’s deconstruction services recycles or reuses 75 to 85 percent of all building materials. In 2015, through our deconstruction services…