Business That Gives So Much Says Thank You

Chestermere Bottle Depot celebrates

For more than ten years, the Chestermere Bottle Depot has been an important business and community partner in our city. Located at #101-260 Marina Drive, Chestermere Bottle Depot not only provides a valuable service, but is also very involved in our community.

Owners, Karen and Kam Khamba, have given back to many organizations during their time in Chestermere. Earlier this year, they donated $1000 to the Chestermere Public Library and just a few weeks ago presented a $1000 cheque to Loop Around the Lake organizer, Bernard Maillet for his efforts in raising money for the library.

The Khambas state, “At Chestermere Bottle Depot we understand the importance of bottle drives for non profit organizations so we are the master in bottle drives. We don’t charge extra for counting and pickups. We also pay extra up to 5% to non-profit organizations who bring the bottle drives”.

They also have a special arrangement for bottle pick up and reward programs for Colleges, schools, Universities and larger institutions in Calgary and surrounding areas.

Alongside supporting their community, they also believe in making the world a better place and that is why they strong support recycling and likely one of the main reasons why they opened a bottle depot. Their website states, “We only have one earth! How do we want to hand it over to the next generation? With landfills that are full and no clean water? Or do we want to give it to them in better shape than we got it from our ancestors? If we keep throwing things away, sooner or later, we will run out. We need to do our best to be responsible with the limited resources this earth offers so everyone can breathe clean air and drink clean water.
We recycle beverage containers to keep them from polluting our roads and parks. We also recycle beverage containers to recover the energy tied up in those containers. Beverage containers only represent 2% of everything in a landfill, but they take up 8% of the space, and represent 14% of all the energy not recovered.
 Every time we recycle an aluminum can, we save lots of electricity. That is because it takes less energy to make a new can from an old one than it does to dig up more material to start over, 95% less to be precise. When you add up all the energy we could save from all the different types of containers, it’s a lot of energy saved. That energy we save means we have to burn less coal and natural gas, which means cleaner air to breathe”.
On Saturday June 25th, the Chestermere Bottle Depot held its customer appreciation event with free BBQ, games and music. Many residents and friends came out to support the event and to say thank you to a business that does so much for the community.

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