by Mark Lennon | Apr 12, 2016 | Recycling
I recently had the good fortune to travel a stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway through Virginia. If you have never driven the Blue Ridge Parkway, you should. It is one of the two or three most beautiful roads I have ever seen. Drive the Parkway in the spring, if you...
by Mark Lennon | Mar 14, 2016 | Case Study, Recycling
Around the world, hundreds of millions of children are missing the most basic elements for an education: a desk and a chair. Here in America, thousands of charter and tribal schools, community centers, and other local groups need to find furnishings at the lowest...
by Mark Lennon | Feb 24, 2016 | Recycling
In the fourteen years that we’ve been handling surplus, 2015 was IRN’s busiest. We filled just about 600 tractor trailers with more than 122,000 pieces destined for reuse, and we recycled another 900,000 pounds of assets that were unsuitable for reuse. Where From?...
by Mark Lennon | May 22, 2015 | Recycling
Then there was the time we were doing a project at a prestigious New England college that will remain nameless. For many, many years this college was all shaded with elm trees. Then the elm trees died and the college looked like a prison. So what they did, instead...
by Mark Lennon | Feb 18, 2015 | Recycling
IRN has a simple mission: Keep usable furniture and equipment out of the landfill, by matching surplus furnishings from organizations that no longer need them, with communities that need them desperately. Click here for a PDF summary of IRN’s Surplus Reuse...
by Mark Lennon | Jun 26, 2014 | Recycling
David Koch is in the news again. If you do not know about David Koch, you should look him up. David Koch is very rich, very powerful, and does not like solar energy. Nor do his friends. They hate the idea of solar energy. They spend lots of money to convince...
