A SPACE TO REIMAGINE JUNK
Recycling nonprofit opens
new storefront in Wheeler
BY MALLORY GRUBEN
For nearly 20 years, CARTM Recycling
in Manzanita inspired the community to
reimagine trash by reducing, reusing, recy-
cling and rethinking their waste products.
When its contract to operate the local
transfer station ended, the nonprofit used
those same skills to reimagine itself.
The organization recently announced it
will transform into the Heart of CARTM, a
group that will carry on the nonprofit’s orig-
inal mission to creatively reuse items that
might otherwise be thrown away. A new
storefront and workshop space for the group
opened earlier this week in Wheeler.
“We are just bringing it right back to its
Mallory Gruben
Heart of CARTM’s new Office of Reimagination with board president Jessi Just.
The CARTM thrift store in it’s former location at the Manzanita Transfer Center.
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