Depot Awards

Each year the Alberta Bottle Depot Association (ABDA) hosts the annual Industry Conference, where the industry takes time to appreciate and recognize the excellent performance of depots around the province.  Awards are given out in three categories: 

  • Industry Excellence (nominated by ABCRC)  A measure of a depot’s performance in the areas of:
    • Audit results
    • Control of shipping supplies
    • Accuracy of R-bills/eR-bills
    • Shipment preparation and load quality
    • Communication 
  • Program Excellence (nominated by BCMB)  A measure of a depot’s performance in the areas of:
    • Uniform Code of Accounts annual submissions
    • Refund compliance accuracy
    • Quality Control audits
    • Operational Compliance, including active engagement in the QMS and implementation of POR
    • Good or outstanding customer service 
    • Industry Engagement
    • Industry Advancement and Innovation
  • Service Excellence: Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award (nominated by Depot customers)  A measure of a depot’s performance in the areas of:
    • Outstanding service levels
    • Customer convenience 
    • Innovation 

Scroll down to see recent and past recipients of these awards. 

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What you do makes a difference. Thank you!

Congratulations to some of the most successful, innovative and inspiring depots in Alberta. 
     
Industry Excellence Award Program Excellence Award Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award
  •  Ability Bottle Depot - North
Lifetime Achievement Award:
  •  Ability Bottle Depot - North
  •  Blue Heron Bottle Depot
  • St. Albert Bottle Refund Centre
  •  Callingwood Bottle Depot
  • Capilano Bottle Depot 
BCMB Team Recognition Award:
  •  Happy Can Bottle Depot
  • Cosmos II Bottle Depot
  • Boyle Bottle Depot
  •  Niton Bottle Depot
  • GPS Container Depot Ltd.
  • Okotoks Bottle Depot
  •  Oyen Bottle Drive & Depot
  •  Marklan Bottle Depot
  •  Vecova Bottle Depot
  •  Plus II Bottle Depot
  •  Millwoods Bottle Depot
Compliance Framework Excellence Award:
  •  The Green Bottle Depot Windermere
  •  Monterey Bottle Depot
  • 2A Bottle Depot
  •  Triple H Southside Bottle Depot
  •  Pick Me Bottle Depot & Pop Shoppe
  •  Magrath Bottle Depot
  •  Tsuu T’ina Bottle Depot
  •  Royal Oak Bottle Depot
Industry Advancement & Innovation Award:
  •  Valley Bottle Depot
  •  Sherwood Park Bottle Depot
  • Blackfalds Bottle Depot
 
  •  Stony Plain Bottle Depot
  •  Castor Bottle Depot
 
   Industry Engagement Award:  
 
  •  Bowridge Bottle Depot
 
 
  • Manning Bottle Depot
 
     
Congratulations to some of the most successful, innovative and inspiring depots in Alberta. 
     
Industry Excellence Award Program Excellence Award Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award
  •  Ability Bottle Depot - North
Lifetime Achievement Award:
  •  Ability Bottle Depot - South
  •  Advanced Bottle Depot
  • Dove Centre Bottle Depot
  •  Bea Fisher Enterprises Inc. Bottle Depot
  •  Blackfalds Bottle Depot
BCMB Team Recognition Award:
  •  Blackfalds Bottle Depot
  •  Canmore Bottle Depot
  • La Crete Bottle Depot
  •  Calgary Bottle Exchange
  •  Castledowns ABC Bottle Depot
  • Manning Bottle Depot
  •  Calmar Bottle Depot
  •  Deerfoot Bottle Depot
  •  REDI Bottle Depot
  •  Easy Saving Bottle Depot
  •  Easy Saving Bottle Depot
Compliance Framework Excellence Award:
  •  Quick Stop Bottle Depot
  •  Fort Saskatchewan Bottle Depot
  • Ardrossan Bottle Depot
  •  Royal Oak Bottle Depot
  •  Kevin’s Bottle Depot
  •  Island Bottle Depot
  •  Saddleridge Bottle Depot
  •  Monterey Bottle Depot
Industry Advancement & Innovation Award:
  •  The Green Bottle Depot Harvest Hills Ltd.
  •  Olds Bottle Depot
  •  Beverly Bottle Depot
 
  •  Strathcona Bottle Depot
  •  Valley Bottle Depot
 
   Industry Engagement Award:  
 
  •  Plus II Bottle Depot
 
 
  •  Quick Stop Bottle Depot
 
 
  • Recycle Plus I Bottle Depot
 

For full details on the BCMB Program Excellence Awards winners, click here.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Alberta Bottle Depot Association did not hold the industry conference again this year. However, the Depot Awards of Excellence were presented virtually.

As no event was held or awards presented in 2020, the 2021 Awards considered depot performance for the period of July 2019 to June 2021.

     
Industry Excellence Award Program Excellence Award Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award
      
  •  Bottle King  Bottle Depot
  •  All Seasons Bottle Depot
  •  Beaumont Bottle Depot
  •  Butte Bottle Depot
  •  Beverly Bottle Depot
  •  Delburne Bottle Depot
  •  Capilano Bottle Depot
  •  Calmar Bottle Depot
  •  Go Green Bottle Depot
  •  Cardston Bottle Depot
  •  Cold Lake Bottle Depot
  •  Hometown Bottle & Recycling Depot
  •  Happy Can Bottle Depot
  •  Green Bottle Depot
  •  Innisfail Bottle Depot
  •  Pick Me Bottle Depot
  •  Hardisty Bottle Depot
  •  Innisfree Bottle Depot
  •  REDI Bottle Depot
  •  Kevin’s Bottle Depot
  •  Manning Bottle Depot
  •  Sexsmith Bottle Depot
  •  Manning Bottle Depot
  •  Okotoks Bottle Depot
  •  Stony Plain Bottle Depot
  •  New Norway Bottle Depot
  •  Sage Hill Bottle Depot
  •  Taber Container Depot
  •  Pick Me Bottle Depot
  •  Sexsmith Bottle Depot
  •  Uptown Depot Ltd.
  •  Plus I Bottle Depot
  •  Sherwood Park Bottle Depot
  •  Valley Bottle Depot
  •  Quick Stop Bottle Depot
  •  Springbank Bottle Depot
 
  • St. Albert Bottle Refund Centre
  •  Winterburn Bottle Depot
 
  • Summerside Bottle Depot
 
 
  • West Edmonton Bottle Depot
 
 
THE BCMB WAS ALSO PLEASED TO PRESENT THE 2021 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD  TO PASS BEVERAGES BOTTLE DEPOT IN BLAIRMORE.

Due to COVID-19 the ABDA did not hold a conference in 2020 and therefore no awards were presented in this year.

Congratulations to some of the most successful, innovative and inspiring depots in Alberta. 
     
Industry Excellence Award Program Excellence Award Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award
     
  • Okotoks Bottle Depot
  • Bea Fisher Enterprises Bottle Depot
  • Chinook Bottle Depot 
  • Redwater Bottle Depot 
  • Blackfalds Bottle Depot 
  • Cosmos I Bottle Depot 
  • Stony Plain Bottle Depot 
  • GPS Container Depot Ltd. 
  • East Hills Bottle Depot 
  • Taber Bottle Depot
  • Grimshaw Bottle Depot
  • Olds Bottle Depot 
  • Walden Bottle Depot
  • Innisfree Bottle Depot 
  • Plus I Bottle Depot 
  • West Edmonton Bottle Depot
  • Quick Stop Bottle Depot 
  • Slave Lake Bottle Depot 
 
  • Rocky Bottle Depot 
  • Springbank Bottle Depot 
 
  • Sage Hill Bottle Depot 
  • The Green Bottle Depot
 
  • Sundre Container Depot 
  • Universal Bottle Depot
 
  • Wabasca Bottle Depot
 
Congratulations to some of the most successful, innovative and inspiring depots in Alberta. 
     
Industry Excellence Award Program Excellence Award Trevor Nickel Service Excellence Award
     
  • Ability Bottle Depot South
  • Ability Bottle Depot North 
  • Airdrie Bottle Depot 
  • Coaldale Bottle Depot 
  • All Seasons Bottle Depot 
  • Beddington Heights Bottle Depot 
  • Daysland Bottle Depot 
  • Beaverlodge Bottle Depot 
  • Clareview Bottle Depot 
 
  • Callingwood Bottle Depot 
  • Evansburg Bottle Depot 
 
  • Cosmos II Bottle Depot 
  • Strathcona Bottle Depot 
 
  • Daysland Bottle Depot 
  • Summerside Bottle Depot 
 
  • Delburne Bottle Depot 
  • Vecova Bottle Depot 
 
  • Jasper Bottle Depot 
  • Warburg Bottle Depot 
 
  • North Hill Bottle Depot 
 
 
  • Taber Container Depot
 

Depot Recognition

The BCMB would like to thank all depots that go above and beyond to assist the BCMB, their industry partners and/or their fellow depot operators in bettering the industry.   

Click the tabs below to discover some of the outstanding ways in which Alberta depot owners and operators are making this industry better. 

The BCMB would like to thank the following depots for their assistance with improving the Registration Database. These depots submit images of unregistered beverage containers or registered beverage containers that do not have images to the BCMB through the Quality Monitoring System.

The images help the BCMB to improve the Registration Database, ensure all beverage containers being sold in Alberta are registered and simplify the return process for depots and customers.  

  • Springbank Bottle Depot
  • Langdon Bottle Depot 
  • Kevin’s Bottle Depot
  • Magrath Bottle Depot
  • Olds Bottle Depot 
  •  Daysland Bottle Depot 
 
 

The BCMB would like to thank the following depots for their assistance with improving the Registration Database. These depots submit images of unregistered beverage containers or registered beverage containers that do not have images to the BCMB through the Quality Monitoring System.

The images help the BCMB to improve the Registration Database, ensure all beverage containers being sold in Alberta are registered and simplify the return process for depots and customers.  

  • Airdrie Bottle Depot 
  • Delburne Bottle Depot
  • Clareview Bottle Depot 
  • North Hill Bottle Depot
  • Bea Fisher Enterprises Inc. Bottle Depot
  • Ability Bottle Depot
  • Roper Bottle Depot
  • Manchester Bottle Depot
  • Taber Container Depot
  • Blue Heron Bottle Depot 
  • High River Bottle Depot 
BCMB Mandate - to regulate and enhance a leading beverage container system that protects Alberta’s environment.