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Alumni Partners
Since its inception, LinkUp has conducted technical and marketing assistance projects for selected Puget Sound area businesses. These Alumni LinkUp Partners have not only participated in the marketplace for recycled materials and commodities, but have worked closely with LinkUp to improve local recycling markets. Read about LinkUp Alumni Partners and their projects.
 Alchemy Goods
Recycled Products: messenger bags, tote bags and accessories
Who would have thought that old seat belts could make a fashion statement? Alchemy Goods knew. This Seattle company has created a line of handbags that are stylish, innovative and good for the environment. The complete line of bags, which includes the Messenger, Haversack and Ad bags, are made with used bicycle inner tubes, car seat belts and vinyl ad banners. Each bag is one-of-a-kind, handmade and stamped with the percentage of recycled content by weight. All of their products are made from at least 70% recycled material. Alchemy Goods bags are available online and in stores throughout the Seattle region.
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 American Plastic Manufacturing, Inc.
Recycled products: plastic retail bags
This Seattle, Washington, company uses recycled plastic to make plastic bags for area retailers. The plastic comes from plastic milk jugs collected through curbside recycling programs in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
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 American Roofing Recyclers
Materials processed: asphalt composition, cedar shake and composition/wood roofing
Each month, American Roofing Recyclers, located in Snohomish, Wash., processes and recycles about 600 tons of composition and wood shake roofing. About 95 percent of this material comes from roofing and construction companies in King and Snohomish Counties. The company recycles cedar shingle roofing into landscaping chips or sells it as hog fuel. The processed asphalt roofing is provided to a company that turns it into a variety of products, such as ground-cover for trails and walkways, base material for roads or top coat dressing for roofs.
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 Bedrock Industries
Recycled products: glass tiles, dinnerware, gift items, and garden items
This Seattle, Washington, company recycles more than 100,000 pounds of glass annually, transforming it into stunning tiles, luminous dinnerware, unusual gift items and garden products. The recycled glass they use comes from curbside collection programs, the company's own bottle drive and scrap glass salvaged from commercial enterprises, such as window manufacturers.
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 Big Shrimpy
Recycled products: pet beds for cats and dogs
This company, based in Seattle, Washington, manufactures pet beds and other products for dogs and cats. The pet beds, made of fleece and nylon packcloth, are filled with fleece pieces salvaged from local clothing and outdoor gear manufacturers located in the Pacific Northwest. Big Shrimpy recycles nylon fleece, keeping these fabric scraps out of the landfill.
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 Brandrud Furniture
Recycled products: furniture for offices, health care facilities and educational establishments
This company, based in Auburn, Washington, has reduced the amount of hardwood used in the interior framing of its chairs and sofas by substituting wheatboard, a renewable agricultural byproduct made from the straw portion of the wheat stalk. The company also uses Dakota Burl®, made from sunflower seed shells, in its shelving and tabletops.
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 Cedar Grove Composting
Materials processed: yard, food and wood waste, and soiled paper
With facilities in Maple Valley and Everett, Washington, this company makes compost from yard waste, such as grass and leaves, and food waste collected through curbside recycling programs. The compost, available in bags or bulk, can be used as a soil amendment or landscape mulch or for erosion control.
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 Creation Station
Recycled products: science and craft kits made from 100 percent recycled materials. Also sells surplus and recycled materials for individual arts and crafts projects.
This innovative crafts store and art studio, located in Lynnwood, Washington, collects surplus and recycled materials, from plastics, paper and metals to wood, textiles and glass, and then resells them in its store. About 60 percent of its retail sales are made up of recycled materials.
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 Custom Handweaving
Recycled products: rag rugs and other functional woven items
This Seattle, Washington, business uses scrap textiles from clothing and furniture manufacturers and discarded fabric items from hotels and restaurants, businesses and individuals to create colorful, durable, handcrafted rag rugs. Owner/weaver Susan Snover spends a large part of her time searching for sources of quality discarded textiles.
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 Durable Plastic Design, LLC
Recycled product: Orcaboard™ plastic lumber
This company, based in Redmond, Washington, has developed Orcaboard™, a plastic lumber product made from recycled milk jugs. The product is durable, attractive and low maintenance. Durable Plastic Design estimates it will use 140,000 pounds of recycled plastic each month to make Orcaboard™ plastic lumber and other Orcaboard™ products, including raised garden beds, planter boxes, Adirondack chairs, dock and pool boxes, commercial-grade benches and picnic tables.
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 Forest Concepts, LLC
Recycled product: WoodStraw™ erosion control material
This company, based in Auburn, Washington, has developed an all-wood erosion control material to take the place of agricultural straw. The result is WoodStraw™ wood strand erosion control, a new product that can outperform agricultural straw and is a readily available material in the forest setting. WoodStraw™ is currently undergoing rigorous testing by the U.S. Forest Service for use on federal lands. The product is made from plywood veneer scrap; Forest Concepts is interested in eventually making WoodStraw™ from wood waste generated during construction projects.
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 L & S Tire Company
Recycled products: tire chips for civil engineering applications; tire bales for road building
This company, with facilities in Lakewood and Spokane, Washington, collects about 1.5 million scrap tires annually from waste transfer stations, landfills, tire retailers and wrecking yards in Washington, Idaho and parts of Oregon. It is the state's largest scrap tire recycler.
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 MetroPaint
Recycled product: latex paint
MetroPaint is one of the only operations in the Northwest that is recycling latex paint and making a recycled latex paint product. It manufacturers about 21,000 gallons of 100% recycled paint each month. The paint is collected from hazardous waste programs in Oregon and Washington. Based in Portland, MetroPaint is operated by Portland Metro and has been recycling paint since 1992.
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 Quarry Tile Company
Recycled product: ceramic tile
This Spokane, Washington, company makes Eco-Body, a ceramic tile made of approximately 70 percent recycled materials. Eco-Body combines recycled glass, recycled grinding paste from the computer disk industry and recycled soil/rock waste from the premixed concrete industry. The product also contains reprocessed glaze waste from Quarry Tile's other manufacturing operations. Quarry Tile gets the glass cullet from the TriVitro Corporation in Kent, Washington, another LinkUp partner.
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 Rainier Wood Recyclers
Recycled product: urban wood waste, landclearing debris, brush
Rainier Wood Recyclers processes nearly 200,000 tons of green wood waste each year, and about 70,000 tons of urban wood waste, such as pallets, crates, and construction and manufacturing scrap. The company operates a wood processing system in Washington, and has four mobile operations for work on customer job sites. Rainier Wood Recyclers makes products from the recycled wood, including kraft pulp furnish, landscape mulch, interim road bed, and horse and animal bedding. It also makes products such as hog fuel for beneficial use.
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Recovery 1, Inc.
Materials processed: construction, demolition and land-clearing debris
 This Tacoma, Washington, construction, demolition and land-clearing debris recycling facility is one of the few in the country that can manage mixed debris shipments. In its facility at the Port of Tacoma, Recovery 1 processes, for recycling or beneficial use, more than 99 percent of incoming debris materials into marketable products, making its operation a more affordable alternative to trucking that same "waste" to the landfill.
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 Renton Concrete Recyclers
Recycled product: crushed construction debris aggregate
This Renton, Washington, company crushes some 1,500 tons of construction debris each day, including concrete, ceramic, marble, brick, stone and asphalt. The recycled aggregate is sold for roadbed material and fill for sidewalks, driveways and paths.
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 Schuyler Rubber Company
Recycled products: custom marine fenders, front-loader cutting edge blades, wheel chocks and ballast rings
This Woodinville, Washington, company is the country's largest laminated rubber manufacturer, producing primarily custom marine fenders for docks, tugs, barges and workboats. Its newest product is a recycled rubber cutting edge blade for front-loaders, which has a unique adjustable slide channel that makes it easy to match, tighten, and secure bolts to the bucket. Schuyler recycles up to 500 truck tires per day, reusing 100 percent of the steel-belted tires and about 90 percent of the bias-ply tires.
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 Tiger Mountain Innovations, Inc.
Recycled products: Squak Mountain Stone and Trinity Glass Products– countertops, tabletops and kitchen islands
This Woodinville, Washington, company developed a composite stone slab that uses 35 to 50 percent recycled material, primarily mixed waste paper fiber and pulp. The slab also contains recycled granite dust and fly ash recovered from local manufacturing processes. Squak Mountain Stone is an attractive, durable yet lightweight material that comes in three rich hues that will complement any residential or commercial décor. It contains no rebar or reinforcing steel, so it can be easily cut on the jobsite for a custom fit. Trinity Glass Products, which resembles terrazzo surfaces, is a new line of countertops and tiles. Trinity is made with 75% recycled glass.
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 TriVitro Corporation
Recycled products: glass aggregates, tumbled glass, glass abrasive blasting media and glass water filtration media
This Kent, Washington, company manufactures a variety of crushed glass products from post-consumer recycled glass. VitroHue®, TriVitro's glass aggregates and tumbled glass are used in terrazzo flooring, tiles, countertops, panels and crafts. An alternative to silica sand, VitroGrit® is used for abrasive cleaning, surface preparation and blasting. VitroClean® is finely crushed glass used for pool, industrial and environmental filtration, and is also a direct replacement for silica sand.
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 Urban Hardwoods
Recycled products: furniture and specialty woods
This Seattle, Washington, company, is owned and operated by master furniture craftsman Jim Newsom. As a specialty wood-milling business, Urban Hardwoods makes furniture and provides wood to other furniture makers, hobbyists, and cabinetmakers. To do so, Newsom collects and mills urban hardwood trees, such as maple, chestnut, oak and beech that are cut down by Puget Sound-area tree service companies, utility crews and building contractors. He removes these felled trees at no cost to the tree service or utility company and recycles the wood into quality products with high resale value.
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 Y.K. Products, LLC
Recycled product: U.S. Cold Patch (asphalt patch)
This Everett, Washington, company produces U.S. Cold Patch, a dry, odorless compound that uses up to 70 percent recycled asphalt for patching potholes and making other concrete repairs. U.S. Cold Patch hardens through compaction, not evaporation, thereby eliminating the release of petroleum-based solvents, which are used in most other cold-patch asphalt materials. The product has been used by more than 60 area municipalities and public works facilities, and is available at several home improvement centers.
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