The Massachusetts Materials Exchange connects businesses with reusable materials with others that can use them. The Massachusetts Materials Exchange links businesses through its on-line database, and by actively researching and pursuing reuse and recycling options.
Participants arrange for shipping and take possession of the materials themselves.
A manufacturer regularly sells 100 polyfiber supersacks to another business. The bags had previously been thrown in the trash. A food manufacturer sells 1,000 used plastic buckets every month to a business that converts them into biohazard waste containers. A town sent over 7 tons of used school furniture to the Carribean for reuse in schools there. A business received over 30 tons of unused samples of roofing shingles.