Calgary Bottle Exchange

I’ll admit I don’t hit up bottle depots often, so I don’t have a whole lot to compare with, but we used to go to this depot when I was a kid so there’s a sort of nostalgia attached to it. They’ve still got shopping carts for you to bring in your bottles with, the same spinning metal cylinders on the conveyer belt and the red bins that you put the cans and bottles in. And the old-​school till that they ring items through on.
A few things have changed — it seemed busier when I was younger, whereas at 10am on Saturday morning we had no problem getting in & out in less than 20 minutes. Not sure if that’s because more people forgo the deposit and put their bottles in the blue bins, or because there’s another depot just north of this one on Horton Rd.
They also sort for you now, whereas in the past they didn’t. I’m a little weary of that because I’m convinced they take a cut of what you bring in, but I didn’t bother counting what we were due so I can’t say it for sure. It won’t stop me from coming again.
Review #8 of Unilocal’s 30 Day Challenge 2012