Alberta bottle depots start offering refunds on reusable takeout food containers | 24CA News
This summer season brings a giant enhance to a Calgary firm’s efforts to assist the surroundings.
The bottle depot system that will get individuals recycling bottles and cans is now increasing to incorporate takeout meals containers.
The containers originate from Calgary-based Earthware Reusables Inc., which gives them to eating places.
After paying a deposit price included on the invoice for his or her meals, the purchasers can then return the containers for a refund at a number of bottles depots in southern Alberta.
“The depots return them to us, we take them to our wash facility (where) we wash, sanitize, inspect them and then we sell them back to the restaurants again,” Earthware founder John MacInnes stated. “And then it all starts again.”
The program has simply expanded from 13 bottle depots in Calgary to incorporate bottle depots in Banff, Canmore and Airdrie.
“If we use the beverage containers as a base, we’re close to 85 per cent recycling,” Airdrie Bottle Depot proprietor Gagandeep Johal stated. “So people are very aware of landfills and diverting stuff from landfills.”
It’s hoped the motivation of getting a refund on the deposit on the takeout containers will get extra individuals concerned in reusing them.
“There’s a big single-use plastic problem in the world and this is taking great steps,” Johal stated.
Earthware is planning to broaden this system to bottle depots in Edmonton throughout the subsequent few weeks.
“What we’re really proud of is that we’re totally reducing takeout containers going into landfills,” MacInnes stated.
Wonton King eating places in Calgary are among the many meals shops participating in Earthware’s reusable container program.
Wonton King supervisor Hardeep Kaur says Earthware’s containers are a welcome various to utilizing compostable containers.
“If we are going to spend the extra money, we’d rather spend it on something where we’re supporting a local business and we’re actually seeing the change,” Kaur stated.
“We can hopefully help our future generations. Obviously we don’t want them to have a super-polluted planet.”
For Wonton King prospects, getting a deposit again leaves a candy style.
“I like doing recycling, right, so me and my daughter, we do recycling every single week,” buyer Michael Adu stated. “So it’s a great idea that they have this one included into the system.”
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