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Deconstructing Buffalo

There are 10,000 abandoned houses in Buffalo, New York; instead of just wrecking them, non-profit Buffalo ReUse is taking them apart and selling the materials and components. From the Buffalo News: ???We saved 4 million pounds from the landfill each year,??? says consultant David Bennick. ???It???s like an urban forest. Every building in Buffalo represents ???X??? number of trees . . . If you just demolish that building it???s like those trees are done and they???re in the landfill.??? Th....

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on Aug 13, 07

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