Spotlight on Earthub

Savanna Symons, CGOWCA Environment Committee

Reducing our waste to benefit environmental conservation is something we can all do. Thanks to Earthub, it’s easier than you think! Earthub is a local organization on a mission to empower individuals, businesses, and communities to embrace eco-friendly solutions that preserve our planet for future generations. It was founded in 2019 by Ottawa’s own Brittanny Belanger after she was startled to find that medicine bottles were not recycled, but ended up as more trash. 

Some of our most common everyday items are accepted as recycling but regularly end up in landfills. She decided to find solutions to re-use these items. Earthub now accepts and re-homes a wide range of items for reuse. This reduces environmental waste and emissions and benefits the broader community. The egg cartons collected by Earthub, for example, are re-used to distribute eggs at local food banks.

In 5 years, Earthub has kept more than a million items out of landfills – over 672,000 of them were able to be re-used. Earthub will find homes for a variety of items. You can donate clean egg cartons, milk bags, yogurt containers, bread tags, water bottle caps, mascara wands, pop tabs, lip balm, glue stick tubes, and much more to be re-used and/or properly recycled.

It’s easy to participate in the Earthub movement and keep everyday items out of the landfill. We invite you to join us in this endeavor. To learn more about what items are accepted visit earthub.ca, and to find your nearest drop-off location, email environment@earthub.ca.