Read Our Tips for Recycling around Calgary

Is Your Container Refundable?

Follow this link — BCMB Product Database — to find out!

For tips on how to handle recycling in Calgary with Saddleridge Bottle Depot, take a look at this page or contact us directly! We want to help you feel confident about your ability to help the earth one recycling session at a time.

If you would like faster service, we ask that you pre-sort and pre-count your materials before visiting us. Then, bag and label all counted and sorted containers by the dozens.

For more information about BCMB-registered containers, please read our page on return rates.

Please separate all BCMB-registered, ready-to-serve beverage containers by the following sorts:

Aluminum cans 1 litre and less
PET 1 litre and less (clear & blue tinted)
PET over 1 litre (clear & blue tinted)
Glass 1 litre and less (excludes refillable domestic beer bottles, Miller, Sleeman, Steam Whistle, & Moosehead)
Glass over 1 litre
Tetra 1 litre and less
Tetra over 1 litre
HDPE over 1 litre (natural)
Other plastics 1 litre and less
Other plastics over 1 litre
Gable tops 1 litre and less
Gable tops over 1 litre
Bi-metals 1 litre and less
Bi-metals over 1 litre
Foil drink pouches 1 litre and less
Bag in box over 1 litre