Black Market Antiques Strives to Be Green
I had two projects for this weekend, right a blog article and do the recycling. Got the recycling done Saturday and put off the blog article for lack of a topic. But now it’s Monday morning and I need to get the blog thing done before the boss has a fit.
Black Market Antiques strives to do our small part to help the environment by being as “Green” as possible. This weekend, I drew the short straw and, as mentioned, got the task of doing the recycling for the warehouse. Part of BMA’s green commitment involves recycling as much of our waste as possible. This includes everything from cardboard scraps and junk mail to tin and other metals. In addition to recycling, Black Market Antiques also tries to reuse items that do not fit in our online inventory of antiques and collectibles.
I started the recycling by separating all the paper, cardboard and metal scrap. This included about 400 pounds of pamphlets from doctors’ offices in several large tubs that were found in a recent estate where we had to clear out everything. If I needed to know about the latest and greatest kidney medications from 1982 or procedures for repairing a prolapsed rectum, I’m sure I could have found that info in the thousands of brochures. Once separated I loaded the truck and was off to the local recycling drop off center where I put the different types of materials into their appropriate roll-off containers.
After the recycling was accomplished it was back to the warehouse to load up a load of mostly household items for delivery to the local donation thrift store. Some local coffee mug collector will probably come close to peeing themselves with delight when the store puts out the couple hundred contemporary mugs onto the shelves for sale. Lots of newer glassware and dishes went to the thrift store…along with what seemed like literally tons of newer children’s books.
In addition to recycling and donating goods, Black Market Antiques is proud of our effort to try to reuse as much packaging materials as possible from other local businesses. Doing not only keeps this filler out of the landfills, at least for a time, but also helps to keep shipping costs down.
If you have an organization that is in need of second-hand items in the Brookville, Pennsylvania area, contact us to see if we have what you are looking for. In the process of acquiring antique and collectible items, Black Market Antiques routinely ends up with a lot of household type goods and newer retail goods that just don’t fit our market.
