Reclaimed wood
Beams, dimensional lumber, flooring and slabs out of Front Range barns, warehouses and homes. Milled by Colorado locals and sold off our racks or built into work in the shop.
FIG. I.1Diversion & Impact
About twenty million pounds of turf, still in service.
Since 2014 we have taken synthetic athletic turf off fields across Colorado and put it back to work in yards, arenas, kennels and batting cages. This page sets out what that adds up to, how the figure was arrived at, and what it deliberately leaves out.
Since 2014 we have kept roughly 20 million pounds of synthetic turf in service. Here is how that number is built — and what it leaves out.
- Turf recovery since 2014
- Method published in full
- ~20M lbSynthetic turf diverted from disposal since 2014Conservative estimate — method below
- ~11.5M sq ftTurf recovered and returned to useRange 9.2M – 13.7M
- ~122Athletic fields recoveredRange 98 – 146 · 22 of them in 2026
- >99%Of recovered turf put back into serviceResale, donation, or continued onsite use
FIG. I.2The Short Version
A number you can check beats a number you can't.
Most diversion claims are a single large figure with nothing behind it. We would rather publish a smaller number and show the whole calculation, because the only version of this that is worth anything to a grant reviewer or a sustainability officer is the version they can take apart.
So: every input below is stated. Where we had a range, we used the low end. Where we were not certain material stayed in service, we took it out. The result is a figure we think is conservative — and if it is wrong, it is wrong in the direction of understating the work.
Turf is the stream we have measured properly, so it is the stream this page is about. Across every material since 2012 — wood, steel, carpet tile, slate and the rest — our long-standing house estimate is 38 million pounds and up. That figure is an estimate built up over years of operating, not a documented calculation, and we do not present it as one. The turf number below is the one with the arithmetic attached.
FIG. I.3How We Calculate It
The whole derivation, start to finish.
Turf is weighed on a pallet scale in the yard — roughly three representative rolls from each incoming field. Those weights, the number of fields, and the typical size of a project are the only inputs. Here is the chain.
- 01
Field mix
60% football, 40% soccer
Historical mix of the projects we have taken on.
- 02
Typical areas
82,000 sq ft / 112,000 sq ft
Football project and soccer project respectively.
- 03
Weighted average
94,000 sq ft per field
(0.60 × 82,000) + (0.40 × 112,000).
- 04
Fields recovered
122
Midpoint of a 98–146 historical range.
- 05
Total turf area
11,468,000 sq ft
122 × 94,000.
- 06
Handled by us
97% → 11,123,960 sq ft
On ~15% of projects a school keeps ~20% of its turf for reuse on site. We coordinate that, but we do not count its weight as ours.
- 07
Weight per sq ft
1.8 lb
Rolls weighed on our pallet scale run 1.8–3.1 lb/sq ft depending on residual infill. We use the lowest figure we have documented, not the average.
- 08
Reuse factor
× 99%
A further deduction for the small share that does not find a second use.
- 09
Result
19,822,897 lb
Stated as “approximately 20 million pounds”.
If you don't believe the midpoint
Run the same chain on the lowest field count in our range rather than the middle of it — 98 fields instead of 122 — and it comes out at approximately15.9 million pounds. That is the floor. We publish the midpoint because we think it is the fair reading, but the floor is the number to argue with.
FIG. I.4What We Left Out
What the number doesn't count.
Three categories of material are diverted through us and excluded from the figure above on purpose. Two of them we simply cannot weigh; the third is not ours to claim.
Bulk infill
Most infill comes out of a field before we ever receive the turf. Roughly half goes back into the replacement field; the rest is sold for uses like horse arenas or donated to horse rehabilitation groups. It is being reused, but we have no historical weights for it, so none of it is in the 20 million.
Turf schools keep
On about 15% of projects the school holds back around 20% of the removed turf for other areas on the property. We coordinate it and it stays in service, and it is still deducted from our number rather than added to it.
Everything that is not turf
Wood, steel, carpet tile, slate, doors, hardware. All of it leaves the yard for a second life and none of it is counted here, because we have not measured it to the standard this page is held to.
FIG. I.5The Other Streams
The rest of the yard.
Turf is the stream with a method behind it. It is not the only thing that leaves here for a second life. We have not put weights against the following, and would rather name them plainly than attach a figure we cannot stand behind.
Structural steel
Plate, angle, pipe and fixtures pulled from deconstruction jobs, sold on to fabricators and builders rather than going to a scrap run.
Carpet tile
Commercial carpet tile recovered from office refits — one of the harder streams to place, and one of the reasons we started taking it in.
Slate, stone & fixtures
Roofing slate, stone, doors, windows and hardware. Small by weight, but the material with the longest second life of anything in the yard.
FIG. I.6Documentation
If you need it on paper.
Contractors chasing a diversion target, and clients with sustainability reporting to file, normally need paperwork rather than a receipt. We can provide weight tickets,reclamation records and waste diversion reports for material that comes through us — ask at the start of a job and we will set it up from the beginning, which is far easier than reconstructing it afterwards.
For the turf figures on this page, the underlying field counts, project areas and scale weights are available on request.