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Originally published Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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This week at The RE Store | Cool stuff available for a new life

Talk about a sustainable business. The non-profit RE Store, with warehouses in Bellingham and beautiful downtown Ballard, has been paying...

Attention, Superman!

For Sale: $295. One artifact of late 20th-century communication technology

Aluminum and glass

Dimensions: 30 inches wide x 33 inches deep by 7 feet tall

Missing door and phone books

Reason for discard: proliferation of cell phones made this former Fort Lewis booth irrelevant

Suggested use: Isolation of cell-phone screamers

Footprint features a RE Store "staff favorite pick" in each issue. For a peek at more of what fills The RE Store's warehouse, see our video.

Talk about a sustainable business. The non-profit RE Store, with warehouses in Bellingham and beautiful downtown Ballard, has been paying its own way since 1992, helping Puget Sound recyclers reuse the remains of the day.

The RE Store is the Goodwill of the salvage business. Marty Brennan, outreach manager and architecture student, calls the job they do "salvagetechture" and says the goal is to put the landfills out of business.

Seattle's a prime place for this, partly because it's eco-virtuous, and partly because there's no guy named Vinnie with a corner on "waste management."

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