Creative Reuse: the process of taking used or recycled materials and turning them into artwork.
I stumbled across the Long Beach Creative Reuse Depot through a recommendation from a friend. What a place! I have to go and visit.
A quick check on the website shows that they have tons of items, multiple local artists, and accept a crazy amount of items, here is just a few from the list (of over 50 items):
textiles, paper, wood, metal, glass, plastics and any other item that seems “too good to throw away”

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Long Beach
A visit to Long Beach is always exciting for me. I love its small city charm mixed in with the grit of its bigger city (LA) next door. The downtown farmers market was no different.
Some details on the market is that its open from 9-4 on Fridays and is at Long Beach Blvd and 5th Street next to the Walmart in a big shopping center. They shut down two full roads of traffic for the vendors which means their are a lot of them. The vendors range from east …