Last year, Golf Town partnered with the Edmonton-based company ReWaste – whose mission is to collect, process and reuse plastic from clients and turn it into sustainable products.

In just over 10 months since the launch of the partnership, Golf Town was able to divert over 477,000 golf grips from landfills, which equates to over 43,000 lbs!

“Golf Town was looking for a solution to divert materials from landfills for a long time, and as a business, we help companies divert material from landfills and transform it into recycled products that they can use in their business, or we can create products which they can sell through their distribution channels. – Cory Saban, Founder & CEO ReWaste

Saban started ReWaste during the pandemic after being laid off from the construction industry. He’s gone from making drink coasters out of single-use plastic bags in his garage to overseeing a facility that diverts tons of material from landfills. It’s a small operation with only a handful of employees, but each is passionate about doing their bit for Mother Nature. And you can help, too.

“Customers will go to Golf Town to get their clubs regripped. From there, the grips will go into a collection box. That box is shipped to ReWaste. We’ll receive it, weigh it, and do data analytics, and we’ll process that material by shredding it. That shredded material is a crumb and that becomes feedstock for the products that we manufacture. We’ll create rubber mats, rubber flooring, different furniture pieces that can be used in the stores that we work with so that they’re able to show customers how these materials have been transformed.

– Cory Saban, Founder & CEO ReWaste

So now, every time a Golf Town associate replaces a customer’s grip, instead of heading to a landfill, these grips are collected by ReWaste and given new life. And that’s good news for the environment.

So, getting your grips changed at Golf Town will not only help you play better, but you’ll also make a birdie on your environmental scorecard.

And that’s easy to come to grips with. – Hugh Burrill, Golf Town Ambassador