Turnip Green Creative Reuse Responds to Crisis With Creativity Amid the chaos of this year, the nonprofit has found more opportunities to help Nashvillians Tweet
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Walking into the warehouse of Turnip Green Creative Reuse provides an instant sense of the beautiful chaos that this local nonprofit so artfully embraces. Its Wedgewood-Houston headquarters stores thousands of pounds of materials that would have otherwise been discarded in the nearby landfills that are nearing capacity.
In recent years, Turnip Green has diverted tens of thousands of pounds of waste annually from Nashville’s landfills. (In 2018, for instance, the organization diverted nearly 90,000 pounds.) Upon reopening after the initial COVID-19 shutdown, they were deluged with donations like never before. “We were literally getting over 500 pounds per hour,” says executive director Leah Sherry. Warehouse visitors can find anything from used art supplies to yards of fa