MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - An organization at UW-Madison is giving gently used college furniture a second life.
“Badger Reclaim" was founded by two UW-Madison students, Amelia Wozniak and Kaleb Roessler.
They started Badger Reclaim during their sophomore year after they noticed the amount of college dorm and apartment items that get thrown on the streets of Madison during student move out.
“I was thinking like, why not try to have it and give it back to the Madison community?,” Roessler said.
Wozniak and Roessler both work at Mad City Moving and they wanted to combine their day job with giving back to the UW-Madison community.
“A lot of the dorms like Witte and celery had a ton of stuff that we, I think it was like 3 or 4 sprinter loads just from Sellery and Witte alone that was just full