Resale Store & Building Materials

We rescue items from dump loads and people donate as well. Prices are low and often open to negotiation, especially if we have too many or you are buying a lot.

• Garden items
• Computers & computer manuals
• Lawnmowers & other tools
• Toys & Games
• Furniture - couches, tables, chairs, beds
• Books, Tapes & Records - most are 25¢
• Sporting Goods & Camping Equipment
• Office Supplies - new & used file folders, notebooks, file cabinets
• Curtains & Bed Linens
• Kitchen ware - silverware (10¢ each), knives, pans, spare lids, coffee makers (including spare parts)
• Appliances
• Picture frames
• Bar-b-ques
• Bikes & Bike Parts
• Construction Materials, Paint, Hardware & Tools

• No clothing - We just don’t have space to deal with it yet. You can take it locally to Hope Chest in Wheeler (368-4461) or places in Tillamook or Seaside. You can also wait for rummage sales at Fire Mountain School (436-2814), St Catherines Church (368-7890), Neahkahie H.S. Honor Society (355-2272) or check with us about upcoming sales.
• We charge for the following because we don’t have space to keep many and they cost us to dump if we can’t sell them: couches, large chairs, mattresses, stereo equipment & VCR’s, TV’s, lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, sinks, toilets, and tubs, among other things.
• Garage & rummage sale leftovers may be charged a fee to cover items that must be dumped. Often, if you couldn’t sell it we won’t be able to either and must cover our dump costs.

We usually have a good supply of:

• Lumber - 2×4‘s, plywood, paneling
• Paint
• Hardware
• Plumbing & Electrical fixtures
• Pipe
• Cabinets
• Windows - wood & aluminum
• Doors & screens
• Mouldings
• Toilets,sinks & tubs
• Roofing
• Fencing
• Chimney Parts
• Firewood & kindling
• and much more.

• A little prep work saves us a lot of hassle. The more your load is sorted the faster and friendlier we will be; e.g. separating out the tar paper from the wood shingles or the wood with paint on it from the wood with no paint.
• We may charge for the following at $26/cubic yard: wood with paint or finishes on it, materials that are too contaminated with garbage, wood that contains more nails than wood. and materials that are of questionable value (e.g.: mushroom board).
• Drywall accepted with 1/3 sheet minimum
• Plywood accepted with1/3 sheet minimum
• We charge to accept aluminum windows and windows with broken panes or broken seals, as well as toilets, sinks and tubs.

Requests from contractors were one of the inspirations for the creation of the whole CART’M project. Local “green” builders were frustrated at the usable materials they saw being wasted, especially when old buildings were torn down to make room for new beach houses.

In 1996, construction wastes comprised 14.85% of the Tillamook County’s wastes overall. This number was higher in the north end of the county as our building rate is 3 times that of the rest of the county. And this does not take into account the quantities of scrap wood and metal, cardboard, asphalt shingles and the like we see daily being burned illegally.

To help address this problem, several builders volunteered to serve on a Task Force to design the project. Some continue to serve as volunteers and CART’M Board members.

A $30,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (Fall, 1998 - Spring, 2000) provided start-up and first year operating costs for collecting and reselling building materials. The grant paid for a half-time staff person, storage and display racks for materials, and outreach to local contractors.

CART’M continues to work with contractors, both individually and in annual workshops, to sort and bring us still useable building materials as well as traditional recyclables. Building Deparments for the City Manzanita and Tillamook County hand out our flyers with Building Permits to help contractors and do-it-yourselfers connect with us. The response even from builders outside the immediate community has been great. An increasing number are even coming to us first for used or specialized items - oftentimes at the request of an environmentally concerned client.