Demolishing buildings is a waste. There’s another way: deconstruction [Video]

When Meredith Moore moved from New York to Toronto, she was astonished by the amount of home renovation happening in the city — and by the full construction waste bins.

“I would see these dumpsters just filled with wood and trim and doors and all these things that I knew were not waste,” said Moore, who has always looked for ways things could be reused in her previous work as an interior designer.

So when her family bought their own Toronto fixer-upper four years ago, she told their contractors that they wanted to save as much material as possible.

“And we were just met with, ‘Nos,'” she recalled. “That’s not how it works. All that material is junk. No one is ever going to use it.'”

But Moore didn’t want to take no for an answer. Instead, she founded Ouroboros Deconstruction, putting together a crew tasked not with demolition, but …