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Our items from from our sister company 1-800-GOT-JUNK. When customers hire 1-800-GOT-JUNK to clear out a home, office, or property, the collected items are brought back to our shared facilities. Repurpose Center staff then sort through everything, separating what can be repurposed or recycled from what is genuine waste.
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Repurpose Center is a sister company to 1-800-GOT-JUNK, operating alongside the franchise locations in much of Western Washington and Portland. They are separate businesses with separate missions.
1-800-GOT-JUNK’s mission is to provide the best junk removal service. Repurpose Center’s mission is to maximize the number of items kept out of the landfill after they are collected. When a 1-800-GOT-JUNK truck comes back to the facility, Repurpose Center takes over — sorting, storing, and redistributing what can be saved.
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At this time, all items come through 1-800-GOT-JUNK pickups and we are not set up to accept direct drop-off donations from the public.
Our mission is to maximize the items kept out of the landfill after our siste company picks them up and we want to keep that focus and perfect it.
If you have items you’d like removed, you can book a pickup with 1-800-GOT-JUNK for junk removal service and our team will handle the rest with rates based upon the volume of junk you need removed.
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We work with organizations that have a regular need for large quantities of pre-loved household and commercial items. Organizations like Share, Habitat for Humanity, Community Warehouse, Big Blue Truck, Thrive to Survive and Northwest Furniture Bank are value partners that help us get needed items into good homes.
If you are a part of an organization with regular or high volume needs for office or residential furniture, clothes, or household goods, please contact us through our social media sites or email.
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Follow our social media pages for updates on items and our fairly regular Saturday sales which fund our facilities and staff.
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Items that have reached the end of their lifecycle - genuine waste or trash - are disposed of at local transfer stations. Our goal is to continue to find systems and partners that minimize that need.
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No, RePurpose Center is not a non-profit.
We understand why people ask — most resale shops in our region, like Goodwill, Salvation Army, and the Habitat for Humanity store, are nonprofits. We look similar from the outside.
Organizing as a sister company was the fastest and most practical way to pursue that mission in a sustainable, long-term way. Revenue from recycling and sales is reinvested into the facilities and staff that make the whole operation possible — the warehouse space that lets us hold items until nonprofit partners need them, and the people who sort and redistribute them. Without that infrastructure, most of those items would go straight to the transfer station.