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Article: Habitat for Humanity recycles entire house: ; Parts will be sold at ReStore; new house to be built on site
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- Charleston Gazette
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- July 4, 2009
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Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
Officials for Habitat for Humanity hope to promote all three
concepts with a house they're taking apart in Dunbar, piece by
piece.
"Velvet crowbar; that's our motto," said Shawn Means, executive
director of Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha and Putnam counties.
More than 140 volunteers are taking turns deconstructing the
house on Dunbar's 19th Street. When they're finished, everything
that can be salvaged from the house will be taken to Habitat for
Humanity's ReStore, a facility at 301 Piedmont Road that resells
used building materials and fixtures.
Habitat for Humanity volunteers routinely save doors and other
easily removed parts of houses they plan to tear down, but ...