????雖然Repurposed Materials這類企業很難擴大規模，但環保專家聲稱，市場亟需更多類似的中間商。（這家公司目前的年收入約為100萬美元，眼下正準備向芝加哥擴展。）“所謂3R理念是減少總量(reduce)，再利用( reuse)和回收( recycle)，”新墨西哥州回收委員會(New Mexico Recycling Commission)執行董事英格力士?伯德說。“但我們常常忘了減少和再利用這兩個方面。這里面蘊含著莫大的善意。”

????這個過程不僅對買家和環境有好處，通常還能給制造商幫上忙，特別是，如果它們原本要花錢移除廢棄物的話。位于伊利諾伊州南埃爾金市的塑料泳池蓋生產商雷納覆蓋系統(Rayner Covering Systems)讓客戶寄回撕開的或無法使用的蓋子，大樓后面的一塊地已經變成了公司營運經理朱迪?萬瓦科特所稱的“蓋子墓地”。幾乎每隔一段時間，她就得雇一位搬運工把一卡車蓋子運往垃圾填埋場。

????While it's hard to scale a business like Repurposed Materials, environmental experts see a crying need for more such middlemen. (The company, with about $1 million in revenues, is expanding to Chicago.) "The three Rs are reduce, reuse, and recycle," says English Bird, executive director of the New Mexico Recycling Commission. "But we often forget the reduce, reuse part. It's goodwill on a big scale."

????Not only is the process good for the buyer and the environment; it's often helpful to manufacturers, too, especially if they would otherwise have to pay to remove their junk. Over at Rayner Covering Systems, a South Elgin, Ill.-based manufacturer of plastic pool covers that lets customers send back ripped or unusable covers, a lot behind the building had become what operations manager Judy VanVactor called "the cover graveyard." Every so often, she'd pay a hauler to put a truckload of them into a landfill.

????隨后，她聯系了Repurposed Materials公司。后者挑選的蓋子裝滿了兩個半掛車——她估計至少有1,000個蓋子。今天，這些蓋子正在被用來為吃草的山羊以及苗圃遮擋炎炎夏日，而阿爾伯克基動物園(Albuquerque Zoo)則使用它們來收集禿鷲展的糞便。“我省下了兩筆費用，”萬瓦科特說。“一是全部扔掉這些蓋子需要支付的勞務費，二是把這些蓋子拖走的成本。另外，我們也不用占垃圾填埋場的地方了。”有人需要600平方英尺（約合56平方米）的二手合成草皮嗎？你知道該上哪兒去找。（財富中文網）

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????Then she connected with Repurposed Materials, which picked up two semi loads of covers -- probably at least 1,000 of them, she estimates. Today, those covers are being used to provide shade for goats grazing in the hot summer sun, plant nurseries, and, at the Albuquerque Zoo, catch poop under the vulture exhibit. "I just saved two things," VanVactor says, "paying for the labor to get it all thrown away and the cost of hauling it off. Plus we're not filling up a landfill." Anyone need 600 square feet of used synthetic turf? You know where to go.