A new online marketplace will allow Vancouver Island businesses to exchange used or excess construction materials with each other, in an effort to reduce waste and keep usable materials out of landfills.
Building Material Exchange Marketplace, or BMEx Marketplace, is a free website intended to promote a “circular economy” in building and design materials, including items such as concrete, aggregates, asphalt, metal, wood, glass, carpet, doors, flooring, drywall, fixtures, shingles and venting.
The marketplace allows construction, manufacturing and demolition businesses on Vancouver Island to list, sell and acquire used or surplus materials.
The initiative has the potential to reduce waste, thereby minimizing the industry’s environmental footprint.
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