Downturn Builds Business for San Francisco ‘Reuse’ Nonprofit Group
April 22, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on booming work for SCRAP (Scroungers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts), a San Francisco nonprofit group that sells commercial and industrial detritus for reuse by teachers, artists, and others.
The recession, bringing with it a rash of company closures, mergers, and downsizing, has greatly increased donations to the organization’s San Francisco warehouse.
“We are the recipients of this downturn,” said Kenan Shapiro, the organization’s director. He said that last year SCRAP collected 200 tons of material that otherwise probably would have been dumped in landfills, up from 150 tons in 2007.
