How IRN Found Ourselves in the Furniture Business
The Beginning: Boston, 2002 A parking lot filled with furniture. That was the beginning of IRN’s Reuse Program. IRN got its start as a recycling cooperative for education and healthcare. As a coop,...
View Article2017 Totals: IRN Shipped 176,000 Items to Communities in 27 Countries & 28...
In 2017, IRN placed more than 176,000 items of furniture for reuse with U.S. and international nonprofits. These filled nearly 650 tractor trailers with more than 8,000,000 pounds of furnishings. In...
View ArticleSustainability and Profit Collide in a Coffee Cup
I had the opportunity recently to attend a talk by the Chief Sustainability Officer from Keurig Green Mountain, the K-Cup company. If you’re old enough and from New England, you’ll remember Green...
View ArticleTo My Mom and All Moms on Mothers Day: Thank You !!!
I wrote this a couple of years ago, and I try to remember to put it up again every year at Mothers Day. I know that Moms differ in their talents, and their caring, and their concern and involvement,...
View ArticlePepsico LOL
This isn’t really about Pepsico. They’re just a nucleus around which to wrap a question, one I think about almost every day: If a product doesn’t contribute to the sustainability of our species or...
View ArticleA Week in June: 12 Projects, 55 Tractor-Trailers, 10,501 Items, 15 Destinations
May and June are IRN’s busiest months. On Monday, June 4 we kicked off a two-week project at Iowa State, loaded mattresses from Montclair State in New Jersey, and fired up two K-12 projects in...
View ArticleFirst Half of the Year: 106 Projects for 61 Organizations; 68,000 Items...
From all of us at IRN, we hope you’re enjoying a safe, healthy, and fun summer. Northern New England is at its most beautiful, our hills clothed in fresh green under a bright blue sky, a profusion of...
View ArticleWhy We Do This: Lilongwe, Malawi
Last summer we did a project with the City of Pittsfield, Mass. and Skanska USA. Skanska was the Owner’s Project Manager overseeing construction of a new vocational high school for Pittsfield....
View ArticleReuse: Cost Savings, Society, and Sustainability
Working as we do across the country, we know that almost every organization in education, healthcare, and the corporate world faces increasing demands to demonstrate Sustainability. At the same time...
View ArticleEarth Day 2019: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
I cut school in 8th grade to go to Earth Day. I asked the school authorities if I could be excused to go to Earth Day, but they said No. So I cut school and went. It was the first time I ever cut...
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