Recycle at Home. Get Paid!

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Nadine |

June 27, 2024

Canada Day is a time for celebration, delicious food and drinks, and a lot of fun. It’s also a time when we likely accumulate a significant amount of drink containers.

What if you could turn them into cash? With Depozip, you can easily recycle your beverage containers from the comfort of your home and get paid for it!

What is Depozip?

Depozip is a convenient and efficient service that allows you to kick your beverage container recycling to the curb—literally. By using our Depozip Web App, you can arrange a pickup time for your empties right from your home.

How Does It Work?

1) Sign Up: Our easy-to-use web app makes residential recycling faster and simpler than ever. Set up an account by providing your name, address, and payment information.

2) Schedule Your Pickup: Once your account is set up, you can schedule your first pickup. Just enter your address to determine your pickup day.

3) Prepare for Pickup: No more sorting your empties! Simply put all your refundable beverage containers into one transparent plastic bag. Our service team will pick up the bag at your convenience and sort it at our depot.

4) Get Paid: After your return is picked up, sorted, and counted by our team, we’ll send your refund to your account, within two weeks. We pay 7 cents per recyclable container, and no sorting is needed! Just make sure you have a minimum of 150 containers ready for pickup, and we’ll take care of the rest.

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Benefits of Using Depozip

Convenience: No more trips to the bottle depot. We pick up right from your home.

Time-Saving: Forget about sorting. We do all the sorting for you.

Earn Money: Turn your recyclables into cash. We pay 7 cents per container.

Eco-Friendly: Contribute to a cleaner environment by recycling your beverage containers.

Stay Informed with the Depozip App

With the Depozip App, you’ll receive notifications with a window of time for your pick-up. Our tracking system will send you a notification when we are 30 minutes away, and once we’ve picked up your order. This way, you’ll be informed every step of the way!

Start Earning from Your Canada Day Event

Make your Canada Day celebrations even more rewarding by using Depozip. Not only will you be helping the environment, but you’ll also be turning your party waste into cash. It’s a win-win!

Get started today by signing up on our website, and let Depozip take care of your beverage container recycling. Celebrate, recycle, and get paid with Depozip!

Regional Recycling is proud to work with the Major Appliance Recycling Roundtable (MARR) the not-for-profit organization that manages British Columbia’s recycling program for end-of-life major household appliances. Working on behalf of appliance manufacturers and other regulated producers, MARR helps ensure that unwanted appliances are collected, recycled, and processed responsibly across the province.

Operating under BC’s Recycling Regulation, MARR oversees an approved stewardship program that keeps valuable materials in circulation, ensures environmentally responsible handling of hazardous components, and helps reduce waste sent to landfill. The program is governed by MARR’s Board of Directors and is designed to make appliance recycling convenient, accessible, and environmentally responsible for British Columbians.

In addition to Regional Recycling, there are over 200 certified Major Appliance Recycling Roundtable (MARR) collection sites throughout BC that make it easy to recycle responsibly. There is no charge to drop off eligible appliances, and you can be confident that every appliance is processed safely, with recyclable materials recovered and hazardous components handled by licensed professionals.

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You can recycle all of the following residential products with Regional Recycling:

Full-size Refrigerators – Refrigerator and refrigerator freezer combinations. Includes built-in and free-standing models.
Compact Refrigerators – Refrigerator or refrigerator-freezer combinations that are 6.4 cubic feet or less in volume. Includes beer kegs, wine dispensers and wine coolers.
Freezers – Chest, upright, and compact freezers, plus under the counter freezer drawers and ice makers.
Window Air Conditioners – Operate through the wall or are window-mounted.
Portable Air Conditioners – Can be moved from place to place.
Dehumidifiers – Free-standing and can be moved from place to place.
Clothes Washers – Top and front-loading. Includes stacked laundry units and those that also dry clothes.
Clothes Dryers / Built-In Steam Cleaners – Top and front-loading. Includes stacked laundry units.
Dishwashers – Built-in, portable or convertible.
Ranges – Can include a surface cooktop and oven.
Built-In Ovens – Can have separate warming drawers, combination with microwave oven or double-walls.
Surface Cooking Units – Installed into the countertop where the controls are either integrated into the unit or installed separately.
Range Hoods & Downdrafts – Can be separate or connected from the cooking unit.
Built-In and Over the Range Microwaves – Built-in with or without hood vent combinations permanently installed microwave ovens.
Food Waste Disposers – Integrated into the plumbing of a household.
Trash Compactors – Permanently installed or portable.
Built-in Electric Hot Beverage Dispensers – Mounted under the counter or built-in.
Water Coolers – Mounted under the counter or built-in.

To learn more about how to recycle your large appliances with us, please see our large appliance recycling page on our website. We look forward to seeing you at one of our depots!

Please Note: Our Burnaby location does not recycle large appliances due to space restrictions.

4 Comments

Gloria Toromade on October 1, 2025 at 8:46 pm

hello,do you recycle 4L soap containers
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- Betty on October 2, 2025 at 1:04 pm
  
  HI Gloria, thanks for checking in on this. We do not recycle those items, but they are part of the Recycle BC blue bin program for residential pickup.
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Meghan on May 31, 2026 at 10:38 am

Hi. This service looks great. Does it matter what brand/type of transparent bags to use? Or can I just go to a dollar store and buy whatever size they have? (It will be for aluminum cans.) Thank you.
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- Betty on June 26, 2026 at 12:16 pm
  
  Hi Meghan, thanks for checking in on this. You can use any transparent bags regardless of brand/size. As long as the team can see through the bag it is good to use. We look forward to seeing you at one of our participating depots. 🙂
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