b'has been treated or notcan be recycled, re-used or soldBefore demolishing any part of your building, consider asrewood. Windows and doors can be re-used. Metalwhetheritcouldbedeconstructed.Thisisgenerally can be separated for recycling or re-using. And electricalkinder to the environment and may net you a surprising and plumbingxtures can be re-used.dividend, as Debbie and Steve found out. Have a look on www.trademe.co.nz, under building andInstead of demolishing our worn and weary aluminum renovation, for a taste of what people salvage. Its all there,conservatory,wecarefullydismantleditandsoldit from ranchsliders to bags of door hinges. Clearly, though,through the Herald to a guy who carted the lot off in only so much can be sold that way; for the majority, youhis truck for use at his bach. We were $800 better off, will need to approach a waste recycling company.Debbie enthuses. An ef cient way ofnding the right one of these is throughAt the end of their renovations, they also made use ofFor more information www.ronz.org.nz, the website of the Recycling Operatorstheir local Resene PaintWise collection centre to recycleon the Resene Paintwise service see of New Zealand. It holds directories of recycling operatorsthe many empty paint containers they had accrued. Morewww.resene.co.nz/for the Auckland area, Hamilton and Christchurch. Simplethan 40 Resene ColorShops will accept any unwantedpaintwise.htm.drop-down menus allow you to search under materialpaint or paint containers, no matter what the brand (a type and then match this with a service provider.small charge applies for non-Resene paint and trade). You can also make use of waste exchanges, which matchSo, in a nutshell, treat the fabric of your house just like you newendusersofmaterialswiththosewhowishtomight do your contents. Re-sell, recycle, re-use, give to your dispose of them free of charge. There are 14 of these incommunity,ordisposeofresponsibly.Theenvironment the New Zealandlog on to www.wasteexchange.org.nzcertainly bene ts and so will your pocket.tond the one closest to you. Once you know what you can rescue out of the process, ensureyouvegotsomewheresafeanddrytostore your salvaged items as your renovation gets under way. Planning is essential here; make sure you know where and how each material will be stored until it can be sold or passed on to a recycling operator. Debbie and Steve Irwin completed a total renovation of their 1920s bungalow last year and worked hard to reuse or recycle as much of the waste material as possible. My builder was extremely helpful and gave us lots of advice on what we could sell or re-use. We were amazed at how much we sold on Trademeour old chimney bricks and window frames, for example. Our old timber was untreated, so we sold that asrewood with an advert in Trade and Exchange and even put a notice out on the streetoneweekend,whichworkedatreat,Debbie explains. It was great, too, that we could use our oldResene Freedomroof tiles as back ll in the garden, which saved us time Resene and money. Half Pearl Lusta| 121'