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In honour of our National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, and in support of our Indigenous community members, GIRR will closing operations this Friday, September 30th. Both the recycling depot and the ReDirectory will resume with regular hours on Saturday, October 1st. Commercial recycling will take place as usual on Thursday, September 29th. Thank you.

Yes, it’s still summer! But if you’re beginning to think about fall and the cooler days ahead you may also be thinking of how to make your home cozy. If your home has an older wood stove that isn’t operating efficiently, you might consider the wood stove upgrade program, made available by Transition Salt Spring …

Due to the high temperatures and to keep our staff safe and healthy, we have closed early today. We will be open at 9:30 as usual Saturday morning and will remain open as long as it feels safe to do so. Thank you for your understanding. Stay cool and well hydrated friends!    

Is there something on your bike that you’ve been meaning to have looked at? Brake pads bare, a chain that needs lubing, or some strange noise you can’t identify? Bring it down to GIRR’s second instalment of our Repair Workshop Series: Bicycles! What is a Repair Workshop Series? We invite a local repair person to …

The recycling depot and the ReDirectory will be closed on Friday July 1st while our staff take a well earned day off. We’ll be back to business as usual on Saturday July 2nd. As we are coming into our busy season, please remember that arriving at the depot with your items presorted will allow you …

GIRR is very happy to be launching our new Repair Workshop Series in the summer of 2022. What is a Repair Workshop Series? We invite a local repair person to set up a temporary workshop on a Saturday afternoon at GIRR, and we invite you to bring in items that need minor repairs. Onsite repairs …

We are looking to expand our on-call list for Recycling Assistant at the depot. Having people we can bring in when staff need time off due to sickness, holidays or unforeseen events helps us to keep things running smoothly. A brief outline of the job includes: assisting community members with their recycling, processing of materials, …

We are in the process of establishing a used motor oil recycling program at GIRR. It would help us to hear from those in the community who do your own oil changes so that we can get a sense of the needed capacity. Write to us at galianorecycles@gmail.com to let us know how much oil …

Galiano Island Recycling Resources Society’s AGM will be held virtually this year by Zoom on Sunday May 29th at 3 pm. The link for the Zoom meeting is below, and will also be emailed to members who currently have an email address on file with us. Please make sure your membership is in good standing …

Are you a repair person in the areas of clothing/textiles, bikes, or small motors/appliances? Are you interested in helping us support the community to keep items in use? We are looking to recruit skilled local repair people to launch our new GIRR Repair Workshop Series. Selected repairers will be paid for their time. And yes! …