Deconstructed

It helps you feel better about it if a perfectly nice, old house is destroyed in a careful, deliberate way with the pieces sorted, stacked and covered. Sort of.
"On July 6, 2016, Portland City Council adopted an ordinance which requires certain projects . . . to be fully deconstructed as opposed to mechanically demolished. Portland is the first city in the country to ensure that valuable materials are salvaged for reuse instead of crushed and landfilled. All single-dwelling structures (houses and duplexes) in all zones are subject to the Deconstruction Ordinance if it was built in 1940 or earlier, or if it is a historic resource."