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Save Money and the Environment by using Bottle Recycling Facility at Country Hills Bottle Depot

Recycling Tips

According to Environment Canada, Alberta recycled nearly 2 billion beverage containers in 2013, keeping them out of landfills. This translates to a total energy savings of almost 700 kilowatts.

Country Hills Bottle Depot is BCMB approved, which complies with all applicable environmental and government requirements.

Find Money in Your Garbage

Holding a bottle drive to recycle beverage containers is a terrific method to collect money for your team! Additionally, you are concurrently assisting in the preservation of the environment. Make your bottle drive successful with the help of the Alberta Bottle Depot Association (ABDA).

Recycle bottles faster and efficiently With our Bottle Return Depot

We are glad you chose Country Hills Bottle Depot for all your recycling requirements. We give back to our community and provide prompt, efficient, and accurate service to our customers.

Recycling tips by ABDA for returning your beverage containers to bottle depots

  • Sort your containers by size to save time when calculating your return.
  • Plastic, metal, and glass are the three materials that you can sort by.
  • Rinse your containers thoroughly.
  • Plastic rings and carton boxes should be separated.
  • Bring your beer bottles in the cardboard box they came in.

Bottle Recycling Fun Facts by ABDA

  • Plastic takes 400 years to decompose in a landfill, aluminum 500 years, and glass 1 million years.
  • Recycling glass containers takes 8-12 weeks.
  • An average of 15 times a beer bottle has been refilled.
  • Well-run recycling programmes are less expensive than waste collection, landfilling, and incineration.
  • Coats, fleece jackets, t-shirts, and carpets are all made from recycled PET plastic bottles.
  • 5 PET bottles can be used to manufacture fabric for an XL T-shirt or to insulate a ski jacket.
  • Recycling 1 pound of aluminum can power a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours or a television for 3 hours.
  • In as little as 60 days, aluminum cans can be collected, melted down, and recycled into new cans.
  • Last year, end-to-end recycled containers in Alberta would have circled the globe eight times!
  • One tonne of plastic recycled can save more than seven cubic yards of landfill area.

Sort out Your BCMB-registered Containers

Please sort all of your BCMB-registered beverage containers into the following categories:
  • Aluminum cans with a capacity of one litre or less
  • PET less than 1 litre (clear)
  • PET bottles larger than 1 litre (clear)
  • 1 litre and under glass (excludes refillable domestic beer bottles, Miller, Sleeman, Steam Whistle, and Moosehead)
  • over 1 litre glass
  • Tetra of 1 litre and less
  • Tetra above one litre
  • Over 1 litre HDPE (natural)
  • Other types of plastics less than 1 litre
  • Other polymers with a volume greater than 1 litre
  • Gable has a maximum capacity of 1 litre and a minimum capacity of 1 litre.
  • Gable has a volume above 1 litre.
  • Bimetals of 1 litre and less
  • Bimetals over 1 litre
  • 1 litre and under foil drink pouches
  • Over 1 litre bag-in-box
Call 403-272-7766 with your pre-sorted containers, or visit our Calgary bottle recycling depot to receive speedier refunds through our express line.

We proudly serve Calgary NE/NW neighbourhoods for convenient bottle recycling.

403-272-7766

About Country Hills Bottle Depot Calgary

Your search for a bottle depot near me is over! Country Hills Bottle Depot is proud to serve the NE and NW Calgary neighbourhoods.

Our return-it bottle drop-off location is conveniently located near Beddington Bottle Depot, Coventry Hills, Harvest Hills, and Skyview Ranch.

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Mon – Sat 9:00 AM – 05:30 PM
Sun 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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