Our Mission

• The Yukon community (including individuals, organizations, businesses and governments) achieves Zero Waste at a cost that justifies the financial cost as well as the social and environmental impact.

• Zero Waste is a goal and philosophy that maximizes product lifespan and resource life-cycle of all materials and minimizes the negative impacts of resource use on land, air and water.

About RAVEN RECYCLING SOCIETY

Created in 1989 by a group of volunteers who wanted to see recycling happen in the Yukon, Raven now acts as a recycling and reuse hub for the entire Territory!

The Raven Recycling Society believes that the current scale of human activity is unsustainable in terms of resource use and environmental impact. The integrity of regional and global ecosystems is being threatened. We also recognize the need for a more equitable distribution of the benefits and costs of resource use. Our vision is prosperous sustainable communities within the regional and global ecosystems.

Raven Recentre (formerly known as Raven Recycling) is run by the Recycling Society and is a non-profit social enterprise. This means we operate much like a business, but put all profits back into achieving our goal of Zero Waste. (Check out our FAQ page for more about how recycling is paid for and more interesting tidbits!)

We are separate from all levels of government and do not receive core government funding. Raven is governed by a volunteer board of directors and we provide roughly 40 well-paid non-government jobs and support a network of local waste haulers and trades companies.