What We Do
Community Reuse + Redistribution
We create opportunities for useful materials to move from people who no longer need them to people who can use them.
This may include:
- Community swaps
- Donation and redistribution events
- Targeted material collections
- Community partnerships
- Nonprofit collaborations
- Our goal is simple:
Keep useful things useful.
COMMUNITY SWAPS
Bring what you no longer need. Take what you can use.
ReMatter community swaps make reuse simple.
Bring clean, usable items that deserve another life.
Browse what others have brought.
Take something that is useful to you.
No complicated system.
No assumptions about who gives and who receives.
Just materials moving through a community instead of into the waste stream.
REPAIR
Sometimes another life begins with a repair.
A broken item does not always need to become a discarded item.
ReMatter seeks opportunities to connect communities with repair resources, skills, organizations, and events that can help extend the life of products and materials.
Repair helps preserve:
Resources
Craftsmanship
Money
Materials
Memories
And sometimes the most sustainable product is simply the one we already own.
REPURPOSE + RECYCLE
Sometimes a material's next life looks completely different.
Fabric can become art.
Old clothing can become new products.
Surplus materials can become classroom resources.
Components from one product may become useful somewhere else.
ReMatter collaborates with makers, artists, schools, organizations, and businesses to explore creative new uses for materials that may no longer serve their original purpose.
RESPONSIBLE MATERIAL RECOVERY
When reuse is no longer possible, landfill still doesn't have to be the first answer.
Some materials reach the end of their useful life in their current form.
ReMatter works to identify responsible downstream pathways through qualified reuse, recycling, recovery, repurposing, and material-processing partners whenever practical.
Our goal is not to claim that everything can be saved.
Our goal is to keep asking whether a better pathway exists.
MATERIALS WE FOCUS ON
Clothing + Textiles
Clothing and textiles can often remain useful much longer than we expect.
ReMatter supports pathways including
Swaps
Redistribution
Repair
Creative reuse
Upcycling
Downcycling
Responsible textile recovery
Wear it. Share it. Repair it. Reinvent it.
PLASTICS
Plastic does not stop being material when its first use ends.
ReMatter explores pathways for selected plastics through reuse, repurposing, material recovery, and responsible recycling partnerships.
Use less. Reuse more. Recover responsibly.
METALS
Metals can retain significant material value long after the product containing them is no longer useful.
ReMatter seeks pathways that preserve and recover that value wherever possible.
Products may reach an end. Materials don't always have to.
