The combination of environmental public awareness and difficult economic times has fostered ripe conditions for launching the tax-beneficial recycling of building materials. Recyclean, Inc., a company formed to give property owners and contractors on the North Shore an environmentally responsible option for the removal of building materials, educates consumers about the procedure for dismantling and donating these materials to non-profit charities (uniquely chartered to accept building materials).

The process works like this: A Building Material Specialist (not affiliated with Recyclean) appraises the jobsite for a replacement value of each & every material in the home. This number is then presented to the contractor to show the net benefit as well as to your accountant to document tax deductions. The materials are then “d-constructed” from the jobsite, sorted and cataloged in order to salvage the materials for reuse. Each deconstruction project can potentially reuse or recycle 70-90% of a project’s jobsite waste.

In addition to the environmental benefit of keeping materials out of the landfill, the typical 4,000 sq. ft. home receives a charitable contribution tax benefit of roughly $165,000. Simply put this is a win-win for homeowners, charities and the environment alike.

This same deconstruction process can also be utilized for smaller projects like bathroom or kitchen remodels. Benevenutti and Stein, has locally pioneered this new RE-USE trend growing across the country and is dedicated to helping clients explore all options for reusing building materials.