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Transfer Station tour & cleanup
A slide, two shopping carts, well over 200 batteries and a hammer… just a sample of the garbage our Green Team amassed from along West Kent Avenue in Vancouver in less than 2 hours! The 20 Green Team members were first treated to an incredibly informative tour of the South Vancouver Transfer Station. Its depressing [...]
Read moreVancouver Sun Run 2013
Over 20,000 banana peels! Juice boxes stretching nearly 4 km!! Just some of the amazing statistics that we achieved at this year’s Sun Run. Plus we did it with a smile and had fun - checkout this YouTube video.
Read moreSpring Runoff 2013
And our amazing 2013 event season continues! With our dedicated Green Team of 27 volunteers and three Green Chair staff, we were able to recycle 135 kg of the event’s waste and send only 2 kg to landfill (less than half a small garbage bag!) That’s a diversion rate of over 98%. We were even able [...]
Read morePacific Road Runners 2013
What an amazing start to the 2013 event season! Green Chair provided full waste and recycling services for the Pacific Road Runners’ 24th First Half half marathon and we managed to divert over 99% of the event’s waste; nearly half a tonne of recycling and only 5kg of waste going to landfill!!
Read moreCondo recycling in Burnaby
We are excited to announce the start of a new condo recycling programme in Burnaby. Green Chair has been working closely with an 81 unit townhouse development to design and implement a recycling programme.
Read moreVolunteer Appreciation Party – a big success!
Our annual Volunteer Appreciation Party was held at the beautiful Cold Harbour community centre. It may have been cold and wet outside but that didn`t dampen anyone`s spirits. This was the perfect opportunity for our volunteers to hang out (without being elbow deep in recycling!) and to enjoy some scrumptious food, a fancy dress competition, [...]
Read moreTaiwanFest 2012
Green Chair and Garbiz worked in collaboration with the Tzu Chi Foundation to deliver waste management services for the 2012 TaiwanFest. Over the three day event our incredible teams were able to make huge strides towards the vision of zero waste and achieved a massive 82% diversion rate.
Read moreKhatsahlano! Music and Art Festival
Another amazing Vancouver event and a massive thanks to all our volunteers who (yet again) went above and beyond in a quest to divert as much waste as possible from landfill.
Read moreNorth Vancouver Canada Day
Wow! What an event! By engaging Green Chair prior to the event our staff were able to provide advice for reducing waste such as printing re-usable signs for future events, banning styrofoam, encouraging the use of hand stamps rather than stickers and making regular public announcements throughout the event to encourage people to
Read moreScotiabank Half Marathon
Another great recycling effort by our team at the Scotiabank half marathon in the beautiful Stanley Park. All our volunteers put in a lot of effort and even walked through the park at the end of the event to make sure we left it cleaner than when we arrived! This added another 407 kg for [...]
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