2014 and still Charicycling

We are happy to have donated some money this year to the restoration projects going forth at the Alliance Church of God and Prayer. Thanks to Nick last weekend we returned over 2400 beer bottles (mostly moosehead as can be seen in the photos below). Not a usual for us to post photo's but this load was larger than most and deserved of recognition. Thanks to all those over the years making it fun for us to give a little while providing a service to some who really can use the cleaning out of their kitchen or balconies. Much Love.

The 2012 Season

Clear out all those unwanted bottles you could recycle in the bin but care not to throw away the value. Ottawa Charicycle will pick up your bottles for free should you have over $20 worth lying around. This includes all beer cans, king cans, alcohol/wine bottles (not home made wine) both large and small, plastic or glass. Usually less than a 24hr turn around upon emailing finditherefirst@gmail.com, but no promises as this busy season approaches, clean out the garage and call us after the parties. Travel safe everyone and remember to never drink and do commerce in a vehicle (drive). Good day!

2012

Thanks to all those choosing to use this service. All inquiries should be sent to finditherefirst@gmail.com. All the best in 2012!

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Confirmed on Google

Ottawa Charicycle blogspot has confirmed a reference from Google. A client found this site outside of the seller sites such as kijiji and used ottawa. Getting more calls than ever. People might be getting this. Thanks for everyone's support. Christmas and New Years season was a great success! Keep drinking, LOL! Keep calling. Thanks All!

Ottawa Recycling Facts

Ottawa Recycling Facts

Charicycle Guidelines

These are simple guidelines for people using my service to follow should they consider the benefits of putting their bottles in my truck rather than costing the city by filling up their blue bins. We all do it. Beer Cans, Wine bottles. It can Add up if you have a bin in the garage.

1.Minimum value of $7.50 to necessitate a pick up.
2.Do not expect a regular scheduled pick up, this service can fluctuate as I'm sure you can understand.
3.Contact me only when you have met guideline #1 and you are ready for pick up, I may come that very night.
4.Please respect how complex it can be to coordinate all the pick up and return. Your patience is appreciated.
5.Only bottles from February 2007 to present..nothing older.
6.No 'Wannabees' (Non-alcoholic anything, I applaude you for not drinking but you can throw those in the blue box and they are worth nothing)
7.If you have a question, ask it. Basically, over 100ml to 630ml is 10cents and 630ml plus is 20 cents Here is what I will accept. Check What Goes In Your Blue Box or Take it Back! to see what you can put in the blue box if you are curious.
8.If you have a charity you want your proceeds to go to please inform me upon contact, it is essential that I know you have one specified. Currently the largest donator is choosing the charity. This can be split and calculated. Possible Charitable tax receipts may be available conditionally.
9.Tell everyone you know. If your neighbors want to bring it all over and you make a large pick up happen, just think how easy it could become to do this simple service yourself.
10.Thank yourself.

Most people who use this service currently reside in dwellings without a vehicle. I have a truck that I put to use simply to do a service to the community. I think we need to work together when we can for the benefit of all, even future generations. Thanks.

Please note that I will happily take any broken recycle boxes at any time also (min 2 for pick up, without bottles)

What about Charity Drives?

I know you might be asking yourself why you should give your bottles to me rather than save them for the Scouts or a Charity drive for a family or sick child. This is why I post this reply to that exact notion. YOU SHOULD NOT! I would much rather save mine and give them to the kids if they were here every week but reality is..

You should not contact me to pick up your bottles if you have enough room to store them until a door to door collection comes. You should not contact me should you wish for the total proceeds of your deposits to go to some certain charitable fund. If you want, however, to take part in the bag it back campaign here in Ottawa and save the environment in any way you can, you should contact me.

If you want all the 10% of your bottles to go to Bowel Cancer Research, I can make that happen. You give me $20.00 worth of bottles thats 2 bucks towards anything you like, we can keep track and at the end of the year you give it all to Shepards of Good Hope, make us all happy. I do understand that most of us don't have the room to wait for the local beavers and guides to come asking at the door. I implore you, if you hear they are coming save your bottles. If your stack in the garage is about to fall and for any reason you just would rather I show up after dinner on Thursday and load them in my truck rather than you load them in yours. You can know that 10% of what they are worth is going somewhere.

Well, it makes sense to me anyway.

This is Why...over $600,000

Why should you return your wine, beer and spirit containers for deposit?

By returning your empty wine, beer and spirit containers for deposit as part of the Ontario Deposit Return Program, you’re helping the environment and reducing recycling costs.

Currently with the Blue Box, over 90% of glass is down-cycled into aggregate for road construction. While this is better than landfilling, no significant energy savings are achieved compared to re-using or recycling. Recycling will save at least 50% of the energy required to make glass out of raw materials, and re-using saves even more. The Ontario deposit-return system will see over 90% of the glass recycled into other glass products or potentially re-used, saving far more energy and resources than the Blue Box program.

As glass represents about 37% (by weight) of Blue Box materials, if every resident took their empty wine, spirit, beer containers back to The Beer Store instead of putting them in their Blue Box, this would save the City over $600,000 every year in recycling costs. For these reasons the City of Ottawa is asking residents to fully participate in this new province-wide deposit-return program.

Referenced from City Of Ottawa FAQ

I consider myself part of the Ontario deposit-return system simply because I know there are people out there that are putting their bottles in the bins because it is simply easier. Follow my simple guidelines and help us all out a bit. Do it for the kids ;). Thanks for caring.