Used is just the beginning

Visit our Reuse Center | Find a food scrap drop-off

Give quality building materials and furniture a second life.

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Help us divert construction and demolition materials from landfills.

Donate

Lend a hand at our Reuse Centers or our Compost Processing Site.

Volunteer

Donate your used stuff

Donating to Big Reuse provides others with affordable second-life applications of quality building materials. Your donations help support local environmental initiatives and reduce our city's dependence on raw material consumption and landfills. As a bonus, Big Reuse is a 501c3 charity, so all donations are tax deductible! Make a donation Learn more

Discover the beauty of salvage

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Improve our city’s soil

The NYC Compost Project hosted by Big Reuse is part of a community-scale composting network that provides New Yorkers with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities they need to produce and use compost locally.
Drop-off food scraps Get finished compost

Lend some muscle

We have extensive volunteer opportunities at our Reuse Centers, compost drop-off sites, and our compost processing site.

Find an opportunity

Founded in 2005 as Build it Green!NYC, we became Big Reuse in the summer of 2015. Our name has changed, but our mission remains the same: to divert materials from landfills, minimize carbon emissions, and provide our community with quality, low cost building materials and home furnishings.

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