Recycle:

Whistler Community Services Society has several programs that help Whistlerites meet their needs of environmental sustainability.

The Re-Use-It Centre in Function Junction accepts donations of household goods, furniture and clothing which it resells to fund programs like the Food Bank, Youth Outreach, Emergency Housing, Counselling Assistance and Emergency Financial Assistance to name but a few.  This model of Social Entrepreneurship is unique and has been acknowledged by the RMOW and other communities as being a truly 'sustainable' business model by keeping goods out of the landfill, offering affordable goods to the community and using the money to help residents meet their social sustainability needs. A true cyclical economy! 

These three successes are part of Whistler's Official Community Plan (www.whistler2020.ca) and represent success in the Materials and Solid Waste, Affordability and Health and Social stragegic goals in our community.  

The Re-Use-It Centre is the drop-off point for the Encorp Electronics Recycling Program. in 2009 this program kept over 30 metric tonnes of electronics from the landfill, instead sending them to be dismantled and disposed of ethically and in an environmentally sounds manor (http://www.encorp.ca/cfm/index.cfm?It=939&Id=18&Se=40)

FreeTo A Good Home Program allows people with free goods they want to give away to post their items on a bulletin board outside the store. This has allowed for several successful free transactions preventing this material from entering the landfill.

See the Re-Use-It Centre for further information on how and when to donate.

Coming soon! The Re-Build-It Centre will help our community meets its needs access to quality second hand building supplies.  This store will be located at the Callaghan Waste Transfer Station. Keep your eyes open for this in the Spring of 2010.