Out of Decay Grows a New Day
Scrapz helps people and communities reconnect with materials through education, recovery, and local circular systems.
Scrapz helps people and communities reconnect with materials through education, recovery, and local circular systems.
The Scrapz Loop is a local system for keeping people and materials in circulation. It’s a way to connect neighbors, businesses, makers, artists, educators, and organizers of all ages with the folks already doing sustainable work in our community, and to make that work more accessible, fun, and supported. Through composting, reuse, mindfulness and creative problem-solving, we help materials find their next purpose while uplifting the people behind the process. At the heart of the Loop is kindness, toward our resources, toward each other, and toward the belief that no person and no material is ever truly spent. There’s no single right way to participate, just different ways to step in. Whether you’re eco-curious or an eco-warrior, there’s space for you in the Loop.
Scrapz has focused on building small, real loops close to home. Rather than scaling fast, we paid attention to what could be handled responsibly and kept locally.
So far this has looked like:
Every pound represents a box that did not disappear into the landfill, attempt a trip through the recycling system, or leave the community. Instead, it stayed close, became usable again, and helped test what local circular systems can actually support knowing that year one is about learning not volume.
The Scrapz Loop only works when people choose to be part of it. In its first year, that participation has come from many directions and at many scales.
So far the Loop includes:
Not everyone participates in the same way, and that is the point. The Loop is designed to meet people where they are and growth through trust, curiosity, and shared care rather than obligation.
Keeping materials local only matters if they are useful. From the beginning, Scrapz has prioritized returning reclaimed resources back into the community in ways that support learning, experimentation, and care.
That has included:
Some resources were shared freely. Others were exchanged to support sustainability on both sides. In all cases, the goal remained the same: keep value circulating, not extracted.
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