--- title: ReCapturit Consulting Home description: Discover how ReCapturit helps cities in America reduce waste by offering solutions for construction and demolition waste. Learn how deconstruction can be an alternative to demolition, saving materials and reducing costs. Join us in building a better future. image: https://support.recapturit.com/hubfs/DYSTOPIAN_COLLAGE_for_DPA_Main_Page_07262023.png --- Follow us: - - - - - Email: [Contact@recapturit.com](mailto:Contact@recapturit.com) [![recapturit logo](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Small_LOGO-PNG.png?width=108&height=64&name=Small_LOGO-PNG.png "recapturit logo")](https://recapturit.com/?hsLang=en) - [ReCapturit Reuse Accelerator](https://support.recapturit.com/consulting-services-reuse-accelerator) [Contact Us](mailto:contact@recapturit.com) [![Medium-round-1_LOGO-PNG](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Medium-round-1_LOGO-PNG.png?width=288&height=288&name=Medium-round-1_LOGO-PNG.png "Medium-round-1_LOGO-PNG")](https://www.recapturit.com/?hsLang=en) close # Dear Cities in America, # These Are Not Paper Plates We Are Tossing. They Are Entire Buildings  Turned Willingly Into Waste...   - ReCapturit Helps You Stop That Waste ## How much waste is this?   **Construction and Demolition Waste** is the largest waster in America. It produces **TWO TIMES** more than **Municipal Waste,** which is ALL the trash and garbage you and I and **330 million** Americans throw away at home and at work all... year... long.  **TWO times more**. That's how much.  [CONTACT US HERE >](mailto:services@recapturit.com) ### From the desk of Larry LaMotte, CEO of ReCapturit, Inc.    ### Hello! If you work for a city, is it your job to stop waste where you live and work? I suspect you would not be reading here if you did not have a stake in how your city was dealing with its waste. We are here to be your guide. I got a degree my Architecture in 1987 and soon after went into construction so I could know how buildings really got built, not just to theorize and assume to know what was best for those who built and occupied them. I wanted to know intimately what held them up and what made human activities flow with ease through beautiful spaces. Empathy made a big difference in how a design would “fit” people. It was not about me.  Over nearly 3 decades I built, designed, and took care of buildings, and I started up 7 different businesses. In those years, I scavenged and saved building materials from everywhere I worked. In 2016, I decided I needed to do something from the heart, not just random solutions to common obstacles. Of five ideas I developed, one rose up as the ideal combination. It was a scattered mess of current “solutions,” the best use of my skills, and vast potential of world-changing good. That became ReCapturit. Our first solution launched during the time of the Covid pandemic, in October of 2021 - [www.recapturit.com](https://www.recapturit.com/?hsLang=en) - the online marketplace for recaptured building materials and architectural salvage. But the marketplace was not enough. The Covid experience delayed and altered the game. The largest source of waste does not become that overnight. We needed to be more than just a place to buy and sell. We needed to help change behaviors that existed for a century or more. At a Conference of the Building Materials Reuse Association in 2017, I met two officials from the EPA. They schooled me up on the whole picture of the magnitude of waste that Construction & Demolition produce. Municipal Waste is a category that includes ALL the garbage and trash that we 330,000,000 Americans throw away at home and at work all year long.  Construction & Demolition Waste is... TWO TIMES BIGGER.  My jaw dropped when they told me what I told you here. TWO TIMES BIGGER?!?  Why don’t we all know this??? Good question. Now you do and I do. Most people do not. On average in America, half of the materials that fill up landfills is from Construction & Demolition. Landfills cost money. They fill up. They leak contaminants and emits gasses. Burning waste is not much better. What do we do? There is a solution. As your GUIDE, we ACCELERATE your ability and confidence to take this on and build a solution in your community.  Keep reading… ![LARRY_SIGNATURE](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LARRY_SIGNATURE.jpg?width=112&height=79&name=LARRY_SIGNATURE.jpg)   [CONTACT US HERE >](mailto:services@recapturit.com) Okay, what's the REAL problem?  ## The REAL problem is really 3 things:  ## ![ICON-TOXIC-2-100X100 - BW](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ICON-TOXIC-2-100X100%20-%20BW.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=ICON-TOXIC-2-100X100%20-%20BW.jpg) ## CONTAMINANTS   **1. Harmful outputs into the air, ground, and water.** Materials rot, burn, and leak. Lead and asbestos spread in dust, carbon dioxide and methane escape from decaying and burning, and heavy metals and other toxics leech into water sources.   ![ICON-EMPTY-2-100X100 - BW-1](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ICON-EMPTY-2-100X100%20-%20BW-1.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=ICON-EMPTY-2-100X100%20-%20BW-1.jpg) ## AVAILABILITY   **2. Long-term availability of new materials.** We have limits. Some limits involve actual quantities of things like metals. We can run out. Others take time, like lumber that takes decades to mature.    ## ![ICON-COSTS-2-THICK](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/ICON-COSTS-2-THICK.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=ICON-COSTS-2-THICK.jpg) ## COSTS   **3. Cost of acquiring new materials.** If you trace back where metals and plastics and lumber and glass come from, these materials get moved all over the planet. From mines to foundries, forests to mills, oil wells to refineries, and off to manufacturers and markets, by trucks and trains, ships and planes. This costs fuel, money, human power, and ecological costs.   **So, remember…**   # Waste Is Not Waste # Until It Is Wasted. ## What can you do?  How can you help?  What's the answer?    #### Are there alternatives to destroying and throwing away whole buildings? #### ![BUILDINGS-in-DUMPSTER_narrow_margin](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BUILDINGS-in-DUMPSTER_narrow_margin.png?width=1340&height=1333&name=BUILDINGS-in-DUMPSTER_narrow_margin.png) #### Yes! The crude and simple stuff – concrete and steel – are routinely recycled.  #### That’s good, and it’s a start. But it’s not ideal. - Ideal is to ***reuse the whole building***. Renovate, remodel, and retrofit first. - If that doesn’t happen, then, the single best solution for all of this is: DECONSTRUCTION. - DECONSTRUCTION is the ***best alternative*** to demolition. - DECONSTRUCTION is the careful disassembly of a building by its pieces and components for the purpose of reusing, repurposing, and even recycling.  - DECONSTRUCTION fosters REUSE.  ### This is why we offer The Reuse Accelerator™, to help cities add deconstruction and reuse to the mix to become better stewards of their cities' resources.    [CONTACT US HERE >](mailto:services@recapturit.com)   You may be asking... ## What Can We Do About This?    1. Where would we start? 2. What are its benefits? 3. What are its downsides? 4. What does it cost? 5. Who does this kind of work? 6. Who wins? Who loses? 7. It is safe?  You may have heard... ## It's More Expensive!   1. It takes more time! 2. We don't have people trained in deconstruction! 3. What happens to all these materials we save? Where do they go?   ## Fair questions, all.  Well, you could start off on your own and figure it all out yourselves, and... ## Build your **To-do List**...  1)  Choose a Project Manager  2)   Research Deconstruction,  Demolition, Municipal Waste, Construction & Demolition Waste, and who decides what to demolish and what to deconstruct, and who stores it, and where does it go if not to the dump, and who sells it, and are there tax deductions for donating, and who gets those, and why do more people not choose to deconstruct, and what about hazardous materials like asbestos and lead and dust, and waste management, and grading of lumber, and how to specify used in  architecture, and who transports it and sells it, and what happens if…?    # ...YIKES! Or… ask this simple question: What is this Reuse Accelerator?    ### We *ACCELERATE* your work by serving as your *GUIDE*.   ### As your GUIDE, we help you to understand the "What is." ### This is the complex structure of existing practices, processes, and policies, as well as the dynamics of people, companies, organizations, and agreements that have been entrenched and operating for years.  ### We then help you engage with these people and entrenched systems and work to merge into these established practices a long-term solution: the "What can be."  Without us, it could take you **MONTHS** or **YEARS** to start this.  We can help *accelerate* this to mere **WEEKS**. [ASK US ABOUT MORE HERE >](mailto:services@recapturit.com) As Your GUIDE ## We Can Provide You:   **The Road Map -** The written guidebook of the entire ecosystem from the point of decision to change a building, to when a building material finds a new life.  ![Roadmap ICON-OUTLINED](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Roadmap%20ICON-OUTLINED.png?width=400&height=400&name=Roadmap%20ICON-OUTLINED.png) **The Skeleton -** The visual view of the processes and options – an easy-to-follow flow chart that gives you a view of how things flow and what changes are designed to do. ![DPA_Process_Diagram-framed](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/DPA_Process_Diagram-framed.png?width=400&height=347&name=DPA_Process_Diagram-framed.png) **The Timeline -** You will need to know relative time-frames for Project Management. We have those.  ![Gannt_Chart_GRAPHIC](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Gannt_Chart_GRAPHIC.png?width=400&height=202&name=Gannt_Chart_GRAPHIC.png) **The Affiliate Network -** Real professionals, organizations, consultants, and trainers, all ready to help. ** ![Affiliate_Network_GRAPHIC](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Affiliate_Network_GRAPHIC.jpg?width=450&height=450&name=Affiliate_Network_GRAPHIC.jpg)** **Tools and Resources -** Webinars and Workshops, Booklets, Manuals - some available for no cost, some for purchase. ![RESOURCE_ICONS_thinedge](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/RESOURCE_ICONS_thinedge.png?width=400&height=284&name=RESOURCE_ICONS_thinedge.png)   [EMAIL us a question > > >](mailto:services@recapturit.com) What You Get -  ## Here are some specifics: **Knowledge, Examples, and Key Insights -  **We live this stuff. We study it. We have helped build buildings and rebuilt them. We have taken scraps and parts from what would be waste and built them into new things. That is the simple essence of what we help you and your community do: take the building materials that are destined for the dump and get them into a flow of supply and demand to find new uses in new construction.  **Direct Coaching -** Sometimes we just need to practice talking through situations. You may need to communicate with a local politician or a neighborhood group. You may need to know what to say in response to concerns. We can help you with this.  **Processes and Tools -** We have compiled all the best and the worst of what has been tried to develop a library of tools and resources and examples to guide us in doing what's right for your city. **People who know what they’re doing -** We have experience in building and taking apart buildings. Having the online marketplace for recaptured building materials at [www.recapturit.com](https://www.recapturit.com?hsLang=en) has given us years of getting to know the entire community of dedicated people making a big difference in what we do with our buildings. From the moment someone decides to modify or remove a building, to the entire path the materials that come from that building take, we understand and know the options.  **A Custom Plan -** We help you create a custom plan that involves understanding what exists already, consideration of affected stakeholders in your communities, and a sequence of optimal introductions of change over time. **And ultimately:  Excellent outcomes!** - Less waste = Slower filling landfills = cost savings!  - Fewer emissions into air, water, and soil - like carbon dioxide and methane. - New jobs and businesses.  **PLUS...** - Affordable building materials for less advantaged communities.  - You are not held captive to supply chain issues of new materials.  - You will be building your city a better future!    ## --- Make  REUSE  Profitable --- [START THE CONVERSATION HERE >](mailto:services@recapturit.com) # Testimonials For Lead Consultant and CEO, Larry LaMotte ![PROFILE_PICTURE_James_Murray](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_James_Murray.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_James_Murray.jpg)   *“Larry is has a hidden brilliance, care for his clients and vision for the future. He develops ideas that are truly innovative, unique and leverage technology in optimal ways. His ideas are foreword thinking, win/win for his clients and leading edge.” * James Murray – Technology Entrepreneur ![PROFILE_PICTURE_Marisha_Cowles](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_Marisha_Cowles.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_Marisha_Cowles.jpg)    *"I got more benefit for my business in a 30-minute coffee conversation with you \[Larry\] than I got spending $3500 on a consultant recently." * Marisha Cowles – Interior Designer ![PROFILE_PICTURE_Ben_Dufay](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_Ben_Dufay.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_Ben_Dufay.jpg)    *“Larry’s level of enthusiasm and passion to help and mentor those around him is top notch! Larry volunteered his time on numerous occasions to travel to local military bases and connect with service members transitioning out of the military. Always a pleasure working with Larry and he is an inspiration to all.” * Benjamin Dufay – Senior Program Manager at Syracuse University  # Events and Video Recordings ### What is Deconstruction?  #1 in the ReCapturit series, Pathway to The DPA.  ### Why Deconstruction?  #2 in the ReCapturit series, Pathway to The DPA.  ### What is the value in Deconstruction?  #3 in the ReCapturit series, Pathway to The DPA.  Video player - Slide 2 - Click to play video Video player - OUR PANEL page Webinar 2 - Click to play video Video player - OUR PANEL page Webinar 3 - Click to play video ### Innovations In Deconstruction This is #4 in the ReCapturit series, Pathway to The DPA.  ### Thinking Smartly Toward Deconstruction #5 in the ReCapturit series, Pathway to The DPA.  Video player - Our\_Panel\_\_Webinar\_4 - Click to play video Video player - Screenshot of Panelists - Garr P and JP M - Click to play video # More Testimonials For Lead Consultant and CEO, Larry LaMotte ![PROFILE_PICTURE_Hans_Majdi](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_Hans_Majdi.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_Hans_Majdi.jpg)    *“Larry LaMotte is serial entrepreneur focusing on sustainability of built environment. His background, strategic thinking and expertise in circular economy and specifically building re-use has made a personal brand for him in construction re-use industry in the United States.” * Hans Majdi – Professor and Researcher ![PROFILE_PICTURE_Heidi_Kuipers](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_Heidi_Kuipers.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_Heidi_Kuipers.jpg)    *“Not only is he an engaging public speaker, but he is a great listener and is always a source of sound business advice and suggestions. Larry is good at recognizing opportunities and goes out of his way to introduce you to others.”* Heidi Kuipers – Sales Vice President ![PROFILE_PICTURE_Ross_Lambert](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/PROFILE_PICTURE_Ross_Lambert.jpg?width=90&height=90&name=PROFILE_PICTURE_Ross_Lambert.jpg)    *“Larry has more ideas per minute than anyone I've ever met.” * Ross Lambert – Director of Software Development # Products and Services - From a Little to a Lot Available for the DPA - Deconstruction Policy Accelerator - and other services Current Episode of:  WasteLine Master Mind   [WasteLine Online Master Mind](https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9VFjYGTBR6ed2ZqBHEYvcg) eBook TOTAL REUSE: The New Model for Distribution of Recaptured Building Materials   [eBOOK is available - CLICK here >>>](https://online.fliphtml5.com/fdkgn/zuwk/) **The Reuse Accelerator ** The complete Reuse Accelerator Package - Get started **faster** than without our help. Go from **START** to solution-in-place in **less time**, with **fewer** wrong turns, and greater confidence.    [SECURE an APPOINTMENT NOW > > >](https://support.recapturit.com/en-us/dpa_landing_page?hsLang=en) More... DETAILS COMING SOON [ACCESS is COMING SOON!](https://marketing.recapturit.com/consulting-services-dpa?hsLang=en) Regional Assessment  For Brookline, Massachusetts, completed in August of 2024.   [READ IT HERE ->](https://www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCenter/View/52848/Brookline_MA-Regional-Assessment-Deconstruction-Reuse-Readiness-ReCapturit) Transcripts and more from our WEBINARS We record our online webinars. We transcribe the recordings and put those into documents along with the public chat notes from the webinars, the slides, and the link to the permanent location of the recording, so you can view it at your convenience. [Check out TRANSCRIPTS HERE > > >](https://support.recapturit.com/en-us/dpa-webinar-transcripts-page?hsLang=en) # Our Amazing Humans Team ReCapturit ![Larry_2021](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Larry_2021.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=Larry_2021.jpg)    Larry LaMotte Founder & CEO ![Laurie pic 2024](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Laurie%20pic%202024.jpg?width=150&height=165&name=Laurie%20pic%202024.jpg)    Laurie Reeser Administrator ![John_Barber](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/John_Barber.png?width=150&height=150&name=John_Barber.png) John Barber Advisor - Operations, Customer Service, Processes. ## **Talk with Us...** ### You could be the next CHAMPION of the Cause...   Like a guide on a fishing trip into the wilds of Alaska, we are ***your guide*** to ***accelerate*** your efforts and give you confidence to make this journey happen successfully. ■ This is LARGE-SCALE POSITIVE IMPACT we are talking about here. ■ You know it's the RIGHT THING to do. ■ You need a GUIDE to help you because you don't want to go it alone.   This will make the world better for generations to come. Here's how: ■ You will MINIMIZE climate-changing gases going into the air, and pollutants going into our soil and water. ■ You will reduce the waste filling up your city's landfill. ■ You will extend and MAXIMIZE the useful life of MASSIVE amounts of resources.   We give you CONFIDENCE to do all this with our help. Step by step, we guide you toward the right things to do and we steer you away from the wrong things. ■ You will help stop the daily practice of throwing away whole buildings. ■ You can help disadvantaged communities. ■ You can help build work forces with good jobs.   **You can do this. We are here to help you. ** **Ready to take a step forward?  Tell us about YOU...** ### Let us get to know you so we can best help: Why Choose ReCapturit? ## Industry Knowledge.   ## Strong Experience.   ## Smart Approach.   ## Answers to questions we might ask you. ##### What help do you need? We can provide you with a free consultation that explains the ecosystem of building demolition and deconstruction as it exists today and we offer packaged consulting services from assessments of the status of your region up to our complete signature service, The Reuse Accelerator. ##### What do you have already?  Does your city or county have any required or voluntary recycling of building materials? Do you have any deconstruction companies working in your city? Are there any local codes or programs or incentives to stimulate deconstruction over demolition? Are there retail stores selling architectural salvage and used building materials?  ##### Who oversees this? Which office or individual in your city oversees demolition and waste management of buildings and building materials? Who would champion the cause? # Happy Clients Brookline, Massachusetts - https://www.brooklinema.gov/DocumentCenter/View/52848/Brookline\_MA-Regional-Assessment-Deconstruction-Reuse-Readiness-ReCapturit # Collaborators, Vendors, Advocates, and Associations of ReCapturit, Inc. VENDORS and MEMBERSHIPS GradSpecs HubSpot Stripe  Build Reuse NCWTA The Good Future Design Alliance Marschall Accounting, LLC EOS – The Entrepreneurial Operating System Adam Winter - Web Development ADVOCATES and ADVISORS The Green Mission - Jessica Marschall Sovran Systems Institute and Z Sphere – David Atkinson Kitchen And Bath Marketing Solutions – Jason Lockhart U. Texas – Austin, Prof. Chris Rausch The Designers’ Collaborative – Tracey Taylor Craydl.com - Adam Katz Intrepid Legal - Richard Daniels, Att'y Michael Hartzell International - Michael Hartzell    [Start Your Journey to Help Stop Waste HERE](mailto:services@recapturit.com) [![recapturit-LOGO](https://support.recapturit.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Images/recapturit-footer-LOGO-2.png?width=250&height=148&name=recapturit-footer-LOGO-2.png "recapturit-LOGO")](https://www.recapturit.com/?hsLang=en) ReCapturit is the resource for: 1 - Consulting services to help create regional solutions for reuse of buildings, building materials, and deconstruction of buildings. 2 - Solutions for warehousing, processing, and distribution of recaptured building materials through our Transformation Distribution Centers™ (TDC™).  3 - Software for Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, plus future connection to other marketplaces, exchanges, architectural design software, and more.  4 - Future commercial Marketplace for recaptured building materials.   ### Links - [Home](https://recapturit.com/) - [Blog](https://blog.recapturit.com/blog) - [The BRICK](https://thebrick.recapturit.com/the-brick) - [Ebook](https://support.recapturit.com/total-reuse-the-new-model-for-distribution-of-recaptured-building-materials) ### Services - [ReCapturit Reuse Accelerator](https://support.recapturit.com/consulting-services-reuse-accelerator) ### Contact Us - ReCapturit, Inc. 7511 Greenwood Ave. N  #512 Seattle, WA 98103-4627 - contact@recapturit.com Copyright © ReCapturit, Inc. 2025 All Rights Reserved. - [Terms of Service](https://www.recapturit.com/terms-and-conditions?hsLang=en) - [Privacy Policy](https://www.recapturit.com/privacy-policy?hsLang=en)