It's often said that drinks taste better out of a glass bottle. There's something to that thanks to the non-porous and impermeable nature of glass, which has been holding liquids since ancient times.
Reduce | Reuse | Recycle | Facilities
How do I go green?
Reduce
Drink local tap water instead of imported carbonated water. Limit alcoholic beverage drinking to the weekends. Purchase local beer instead of import.
Reuse
Save those bottles for a home brew operation; wine and liquor bottles can make fetching single stem vases. Start your own Glass Castle, just like the one in Boswell BC or the old one that used to be up island.
Recycle
Clean glass bottles with lids removed and labels intact are fully acceptable in your CRD blue box. The lisda re accepted as well, once removed. For a return of your deposit see the area depots below:
NOTE: Keep sheet, pane, and household glassware out of your blue box, as this contaminates and can ruin an entire load.
Facilities
Alpine Bottle Depot
1045 Dunford Avenue
Langford
250-474-5145
BC Liquor Stores
All Locations
Victoria
Bottle Depot, The - Glanford
4261 Glanford Avenue
Saanich
250-727-7480
Bottle Depot, The - Quadra
3961 Quadra Street
Victoria
250-727-7480
Bottle Depot, Victoria
655 Queens Avenue
Victoria
250-727-7480
Cascades Recovery Inc.(Formerly Metro, Commercial Only)
2800 Bridge Street
Victoria
250-480-1274
Encorp
Multiple Depot Locations
Burnaby
1-800-330-9767
Galiano Recycling Depot
220 Sturdies Bay Road (at Galiano Freight Yard)
Galiano Island
250-539-5769
Mayne Island Recycling Depot
390 Campbell Bay Road
Mayne Island
250-539-3383
Pacific Mobile Depots
Victoria
250-893-3851
Pender Island Recycling Depot
4400 Otter Bay Road
Pender Island
250-629-6962
Return-It Centre at Saturna General Store
101 Narvaez Bay Road
Saturna Island
250-539-2936
Salt Spring Island Recycling Depot
349 Rainbow Road
Salt Spring Island
250-537-1200
Saltspring Refund Centre
370 Lower Ganges Road
Ganges, Saltspring
250-537-8784
Saturna Island Recycling Depot
Navarez & Harris Road
Saturna Island
250-539-2868
Sidney Bottle Depot
#5-10025 Galaran Road
Sidney
250-655-4878
Sooke Bottle Depot
2036 Idlemore Road
Sooke
250-744-8906
West Shore Return-It Centre
935 Ellery Street
Victoria
250-381-1482
The Environmental Story
Glass is made from heated silica (sand), and other readily available non-toxic natural materials. While glass is heavier than other packaging products such as plastics, tin and Tetra Paks, and therefore results in a higher greenhouse gas output through the transport of glass packaged products, the other green properties of this material keep it actively used. In BC, our local breweries reuse those trademark brown glass beer bottles an average of 15 times before sending them on to the recyclers.
For every six tons of container glass recycled, a ton of carbon dioxide is kept out of our atmosphere. Glass sent for recycling will either be left unsorted and used for road aggregate, or sorted by colour and then ground into cullet to use for new glass, sandblasting or in construction materials such as fiberglass or glassphalt. Bottles from beer, non-alcoholic drinks, wine, and liquor are included in the Encorp return-it scheme, whereby a deposit is levied at point of purchase to offset reuse and recycling costs.
Save the Date!
This year, Hartland Happening is on Sunday June 24th.
10:30 am to 3:00 pm
Click here for more details
Questions? Call the CRD Hotline.
We can answer your questions on the Hartland landfill, composting, household hazardous waste, recycling and more!
t: 250.360.3030
toll-free: 1.800.663.4425 #3030
Go blue. It's the right thing to do.
Use CRD Blue Boxes & Bags at the curb.