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Now available from Gibsons Recycling Depot:The Gatherer - insert for the Blue Box The more we sort, the more valuable natural resources are being recycled, reducing CO2 emissions and saving money - creating a greener community! Check our our new SHOP page for more great Products! |
RESOURCE RECOVERY DEPOT DESIGN
Gibsons Recycling and Resource Recovery Centre has developed a consultancy team to help bring our successes in waste recovery to you. With our partnership with Greenomics we bring our practical hands-on experience to help municipalities, regional districts, and other organizations striving to achieve Zero Waste goals and leverage the promise of emerging “Green Economic Opportunities”.
Check out Gibsons Recycling Depot on the Tyee News Blog: Click here to read
Spring Gillard visited our depot and posted on her blog, the Compost Diaries: Click here to read
Local Newpaper Article: Click here to read
SMALL APPLIANCE EPR
Gibsons Recycling Depot will be the official EPR site to drop off small appliances in the Gibsons area!
SMOKE ALARM AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR EPR
We will start accepting items for both programs on Oct 1, 2011 at our depot for the Gibsons area!!!
Click here for more information and acceptable items!

Buddy is back from the 7th Annual Zero Waste
International Conference and Dialogue in Florianopolis, Brazil.

This is the hard Working Staff At Gibsons Recycling Depot proudly wearing their new Brazil shirts Buddy brought them back from Florianopolis.

The theme was Zero Waste Solutions in the Context of Climate,
Financial Crisis and Chemical Safety.
Click here to read the Coast Reporter article about Buddy's trip
Gibsons Recycling Depot is a small local business committed to community, environment and the future, modeled after successful social enterprises. We are doing our part to positively impact the environment through by reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfills, thus reducing the pressure on virgin resources.
> Click Here for our plan to reinvent recycling here on the Sunshine Coast! <
The heart and soul of GIBSONS RECYCLING DEPOT LTD. is about creating the “greenest” community now and for future generations. Our mission is to support and lead our community to zero waste by providing programs and services that reduce waste and create opportunities to recycle. Reuse and reclaim.

Our mission is to build recovery and recycling programs that:
1. Create local jobs and opportunities to use our discards as resources
2. Raise community awareness
3. Advocates zero waste
4. Offer training and jobs to individuals with special needs
5. Donate salvaged materials to charities for fund raising
6. Create a community recycling centre where children and adults learn to be responsible environmental stewards
7. Have an ever expanding list of materials recycled, reclaimed and removed from the waste stream
8. Invest in and promote sustainable innovations for reducing waste
9. Implement innovative landfill diversion techniques
10. Incorporate socially responsible business practices
Click below to learn more about Our Services:
Recycling - Containers & Storage - Disposal - Rubbish & Recycling Pick Up
*Buddy Boyd was selected to sit as a board Director for the Recycling Council of British Columbia July 1 2010*

but the best answers I know are almost trivial. Environmental problems are caused
by billions of small, unthinking actions. They will be cured by billions of small, sensible actions,
simple substitutions of environmentally conscious habits
for the old thoughtless and wasteful ones”.
-- Anonymous
Gibsons Recycling Depot Ltd.
Open 8am to 5pm - 7 Days a Week
1018 Venture Way Gibsons BC
604-740-1425
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality! To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete!"
-- Buckminster Fuller







