Recycling Centre

Located in Oakville, our Recycling Depot is a 58,000 square foot terminal, supported by 50 employees, 17 trucks and 70 trailers.

Clothing and household donations that are made at the store level are collected on-site and picked up by trucks to be taken back to the Recycling Depot. There donations are sorted, organized, and prepared for resale in our stores, as well as distributed between Salvation Army shelters and other programs where there is need.

Donations that are processed in the terminal which cannot be reused (of poor quality, too worn or otherwise not viable for resale), are sorted and handled by means of our recycling programs.

The benefits from this process are threefold:

• The recycle and reuse of otherwise unused and discarded clothing and household goods
• Millions of pounds of waste diverted from landfills
• Money is generated for countless Salvation Army programs and services across Canada

Another main element of our Recycling Depot is the Ontario Electronic Stewardship (OES) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Program.