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Company Trash, Classroom Treasures [1]

Furniture stores and architectural firms get a lot of samples – of fabric, tiles, and carpet.  Those samples can pile up.  Usually, they get thrown in the trash.  But, in some cities, they are starting to make unused design samples available to artists and art teachers.  The Environment Report's Julie Grant has more.

Waste [2]
National (U.S.) [3]
Public [4]
Source: Environment Report [5], 09/15/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/company-trash-classroom-treasures [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/waste [3] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [5] http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4657