Howard Wein, president of Construction Junction, Secretary McGinty, and Deb Elliot, former President of CJ

Construction Junction, Western Pennsylvania’s first nonprofit retail store designed to sell used and surplus building materials, was visited by DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty this week in Pittsburgh.

The tour gave the store the opportunity to show off the thousands of valuable building supplies it has for sale that would otherwise be thrown away in a landfill.

27,000 tons of useable building materials go into landfills in Allegheny County every year. Construction Junction works with contractors, stores and others to take donations of the items and then offer them for resale to the public.

Each year 2,000 doors, 1,000 windows, 1,200 cabinets, hardware, molding and hundreds of other items are sold at Construction Junction.

For more information on how to donate items or for a list of items in stock, visit the Construction Junction website or call 412-243-5025.

Construction Junction is an independent project of the Pennsylvania Resources Council.

1/27/2006