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We're now standing in Focus: HOPE's Warehouse D, where WARM Training Center has a deconstruction
operation. Now what deconstruction means is that we're taking apart old houses to reuse
the materials inside. Very different from demolition, where you simply tear the house
down.
And we're able to get some remarkable things. When you first take the lumber out, it looks
like this. May not appear to be much of use. We're able to turn wood like this into things
like this. Now imagine a set of cabinets that have a tag on it that says this originally
came from 1646 Trumbull Street. It has history. You can capture a piece of that history for
your own home.
Lots of other things we can do. We can make these beautiful wood block pieces, like a
cheese block. Or even these countertops made from wood ends. We've got these actually being
used in various businesses around Detroit now.
This idea that we don't have to consider all these things a waste, they can actually be
a useful resource, it's an idea that has lots of legs in lots of different places. In fact,
if you ask kids in Detroit about problems they see in the city, they'll often tell you
one of them is trash. You see trash all over the place.
Now there's one group, Green Living Science, that's working with those kids to take that
trash and do something new to it with recycling.