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Your organization

a piece of cleveland

Briefly describe your organization's products/services and the size of operations.

a piece of cleveland designs and produces furniture and other products from lumber of deconstructed inner city houses. we are a small custom shop with hopes of becoming a large manufacturer.

Your website

http://www.apieceofcleveland.com

What attracts you to the concept of zero waste?

reuse, in particular. new, innovative concepts that will help cleveland continue to grow into a sustainable, healthy city.

What is your organization doing to eliminate waste?

reuse of lumber that would normally get sent to landfill.

What motivated you to join ZeroWasteNEO.org?

Learn best practices, Share resources, Network with others, Find potential clients

What do you need to learn to be able to take action towards Zero Waste?

how to find cost effective ways to eliminate our waste.

Please describe your organization's waste reduction goals (i.e. zero waste by 2019).

we plan to be zero waste by 2019. we need to find cost effective ways of shredding our waste lumber and safely and responsibly disposing of lead-tainted cips and sawdust.

If your organization has set a zero waste goal, how do you plan to reach that goal?

selling more product would enable us to use working capital on finding the proper resources.