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By Jake Holland<\/strong>
\nMedill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n

Eleanor Ray weaves through rows of picture frames, thread, yarn and oil paints as she walks through her shop, pointing to miles of fabric, a mountain of art supplies and decorations for all seasons.<\/p>\n

Her store, the WasteShed, 2842 W. Chicago Ave., sells the fixings of any arts-and-crafts store, along with more eclectic items such as microfiche, sombreros, vintage scarves and old kimono fabric. There\u2019s one key difference, however, between a Hobby Lobby and Ray\u2019s venture \u2014 everything here is secondhand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cool thing about art is that you can really make it out of anything,\u201d Ray says, a soft smile on her face. \u201cIf you put your mind to it there\u2019s no reason to buy new stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To produce a single new item, component parts must be extracted. After production, it\u2019s shipped, stored and then shipped again before it\u2019s placed on shelves. Goods not purchased by consumers are often thrown away without being repurposed.<\/p>\n

Ray\u2019s store, on the other hand, takes donated secondhand items and sells them at a discounted price. It\u2019s a win-win situation: customers get affordable materials, and otherwise unwanted goods are kept out of trash heaps and landfills.<\/p>\n

Though the price varies by the item’s condition, a ball of wool yarn goes for about $3, a used board game for about $10 and a tube of acrylic paint for $5.<\/p>\n

The WasteShed prices most items at one-quarter to one-half of their original costs. If it\u2019s nearly new or a rare vintage find, it\u2019s more expensive, and if it\u2019s in not-so-great shape, it costs less.<\/p>\n

Ray\u2019s goal, besides providing for the community, is to implement a miniature \u201ccircular economy,\u201d keeping already produced items in use and repurposing them rather than just discarding or recycling them.<\/p>\n

Nestled between gray train tracks and the greenery of nearby Humboldt Park, the WasteShed has served community members and customers from much farther away since 2014.<\/p>\n

Ray views the shop as both a reuse center and an environmental education hub, and it\u2019s grown so big in recent months that the team has had to put a temporary suspension on new donations. This, to her, is a win\u00a0\u2014\u00a0not a loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking stuff that would be going to rot in a landfill and using it to replace things that people would buy new,\u201d Rays says. \u201cWe\u2019re carbon negative \u2014\u00a0that\u2019s about as sustainable as you can get.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The WasteShed, in addition to selling art store staples like paint, pens and thread, also sells odds and ends. Some of these quirkier items include \u201cfoam bits,\u201d old photographs and loose sequins. (Jake Holland\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Getting off the ground<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ray, who is in her mid-30s, dons a blue and green polka dot sweater, rose-patterned tweed pants and fuzzy moccasins. Her jet-black hair frames a face with a close-lipped smile and beachwood glasses.<\/p>\n

She estimates the shop kept $412,000 worth of material out of landfills in 2019. That same year, the WasteShed diverted and repurposed over 45,000 pounds of materials, or about 23 tons.<\/p>\n

Creatives and people looking for quirky art supplies buy there. But Ray pursues ways to give back to the community as well. Last year, goods from The WasteShed made their way into at least one school in each of Chicago\u2019s 50 wards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re growing 50% year over year,\u201d Rays says, noting the store passed the $1 million in sales mark last fall. \u201cChange and growth is our norm now.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Chicago transplant originally from Boston, Ray founded the shop after stints at other creative reuse centers across the country. She graduated from Portland\u2019s Reed College in 2007 and stayed local to volunteer at Scrap, where she first gained exposure to creative reuse shops.<\/p>\n

After moving to Chicago, Ray took the foundation she had gained at Scrap and used her knowledge to serve local communities here.<\/p>\n

\u201cChicago is enormously wasteful relative to some East and West Coast cities that have more awareness and infrastructure over the reuse and recycling of materials,\u201d Ray says.<\/p>\n

While some creative reuse centers operate on a free-to-free basis \u2014 giving donated items for free to community members\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the WasteShed follows a more revenue traditional model. Ray\u2019s shop derives around 75% of its funds from in-store transactions and another 25% from grants and private monetary donations.<\/p>\n

Ray says the average donation is around seven pounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re providing people a service by absorbing these materials, and we don\u2019t get paid when people drop things off,\u201d Ray says. \u201cWe get paid when people buy them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The store received so many items over the holiday season that it has had to place a hold on the donation of new materials. (Jake Holland\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It takes a village<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Saiter, the store\u2019s administrative assistant, carefully arranges a spread of vintage stencils, making sure the table looks just right. She hums as the light jazz of Poolside\u2019s \u201cNext to You\u201d wafts from the overhead speakers.<\/p>\n

Saiter is setting up the spread to post on Instagram. Unlike a traditional arts store, where customers can look online to have a rough idea of what kinds of items it carries, WasteShed patrons rely on word of mouth and social media posts to know what hot items are in stock.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe post pictures to our Instagram in the hope that we can boost our business,\u201d Saiter says, holding up one of the vintage stencils to the light. \u201cPaints and standard art supplies, [as well as] quirky items like this, go before the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because the team consists of only three full-time employees, the WasteShed relies on volunteers to help sort through its high volume of donations.<\/p>\n

Krysta Williams, an artist from Albany Park, on the city\u2019s Northwest Side, donates to and buys from the WasteShed whenever she\u2019s in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to volunteer more in general this year,\u201d Williams says, organizing a bin of donated colored pencils and sorting them into different displays. \u201cAnd with the climate crisis, the world burning, that whole thing \u2026 this just felt in alignment with what\u2019s important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volunteering, however, isn\u2019t the only form of community engagement baked into the WasteShed\u2019s operating model. Ray and her team cordon off a section of the shop specifically for teachers. Educators, many of whom work in cash-strapped Chicago schools with little art funding from the city, can take goods for free and use them within their classrooms.<\/p>\n

To date, educators from more than 300 schools in the Chicago area and across the U.S. have made use of the WasteShed\u2019s free teacher section, Ray says. She estimates the shop gives around $1,300 of free material away per month.<\/p>\n

In addition to community building, though, Rays says the shop seeks to address problems caused by the way capitalism functions in the United States today. She views her shop as a small piece in a larger resistance to the \u201cabundance of stuff out in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kind of society can we build without Amazon?\u201d Ray asks, furrowing her brow. \u201cHow can we construct an economy and a culture around things that already exist rather than creating demand for and extracting more crap for things nobody needs?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray says her shop isn\u2019t the answer, but rather a start.<\/p>\n

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The WasteShed offers free art supplies and educational materials to educators. Ray says this is a way of giving back to the community while also addressing the underfunding in many Chicago Public Schools. (Jake Holland\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Making art accessible \u2014 and sustainable<\/strong><\/p>\n

Samantha Johnson, a freshman at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, says she appreciates the sustainability aspect of the WasteShed. But the real draw to her is the store\u2019s affordability, and she says she\u2019s able to buy good quality materials for her school and personal artwork without breaking the bank.<\/p>\n

“My teachers [at SAIC] recommend this place highly,” Johnson says. “There\u2019s not been one time I\u2019ve come here where I didn\u2019t get what I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allegra Harvard, also an SAIC student, says she heads to the WasteShed before going to more high-end retailers like Blick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like poking around and seeing what\u2019s new,\u201d Harvard says. \u201cThere\u2019s little treasures and things you wouldn\u2019t normally expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, the WasteShed has some oddities, like 4H trophies, ceramic angels, vintage fashion magazines and foam stickers. Adrian Jacobs, the shop\u2019s marketing assistant, says she works primarily in multimedia and finds it rewarding to repurpose odds and ends into something beautiful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always used cheaper materials in my artwork because it\u2019s all I can afford,\u201d Jacobs says. \u201cTo be able to get that all here is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The secondary sorting area is flanked by quirkier finds like ceramic angels and vintage typewriters. Volunteers from the community, Ray says, help the WasteShed process the sheer amount of donated goods that people drop off every week. (Jake Holland\/MEDILL)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The path forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ray says she was approached last summer by the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse, which sells reclaimed building materials and uses the proceeds to support education and job training in Evanston.<\/p>\n

The Evanston nonprofit plans on moving to a larger space this spring, Ray says, and will use part of that space as a \u201creuse hub\u201d and \u201creuse incubator\u201d that will feature the WasteShed and other green groups.<\/p>\n

The collaboration will provide an opportunity for the WasteShed to develop a presence on the North Side, Ray says. The shop is beginning its fundraising efforts to launch a second location there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to have small spaces across the city that respond to the needs of that neighborhood,\u201d Ray says. \u201cIt\u2019s more sustainable and more useful than having one giant warehouse full of junk.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Ray says she hopes her shop does more than keep goods out of landfills. She wants to teach people how to repurpose the items already in their lives.<\/p>\n

A century ago, Americans would mend clothing and repurpose packaging into household goods. But today people buy, consume and discard without much thought. Now, Ray says, is the time to educate and deal with our overabundance of things \u2014 before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to move the window on our cultural priorities for things that will exist after a potential climate collapse,\u201d Ray says. \u201cStuff. Lots of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Eleanor Ray, owner of the WasteShed, stands in front of donated fabrics. The store kept 45,000 pounds of material out of landfills last year, Ray says. (Jake Holland\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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