Re-Use-It Centre
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Jason Robinson interviews staff and volunteers at the The Re-Use-It Centre in Whistler, B.C.
The Centre was built by the Resort Municipality of Whistler in 2000, to help keep useable items out of the landfill and to help fulfill the community’s 2020 Sustainability plan. Since that time the organization has helped thousand of community residents and guests by taking in goods and reselling them back to the community.
This humble center is then able to generate enough income from these low cost re-useable items and redirect the profit to support 75%! of the *Whistler Community Services Society’s budget (WCSS) which is re-distributed to fund more than 25 Separate Community Programs.
What would it look like if every community had a "Re-Use-It Centre" where the monies generated flowed back into supporting the people in the community?
* Read more here:
http://www.sustainabilitytelevision.com/news/717
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