Showing posts with label Encorp Return-It bottle depots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Encorp Return-It bottle depots. Show all posts
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Go Green's Anthony Ryder totaling-up on the new touch screen system.[/caption]
Sixteen years of tradition came to an end today as the Go Green bottle depot stopped counting bottles manually and began using a touch screen computer system. The Point of Return Application has been used by most Return-It bottle depots for over a decade. It's designed to simplify the process of counting a customer's bottles by allowing front counter staff to simply enter totals for pre-defined beverage container types. The system does the math and provides the customer with a detailed receipt.
Go Green's Anthony Ryder totaling-up on the new touch screen system.[/caption]Sixteen years of tradition came to an end today as the Go Green bottle depot stopped counting bottles manually and began using a touch screen computer system. The Point of Return Application has been used by most Return-It bottle depots for over a decade. It's designed to simplify the process of counting a customer's bottles by allowing front counter staff to simply enter totals for pre-defined beverage container types. The system does the math and provides the customer with a detailed receipt.
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Rough visualization of an "instant" bottled depot.[/caption]
Every neighbourhood in Vancouver plays host to a variety of binners who fish the neighbourhood's stream of returnable beverage containers. Unfortunately not every neighbourhood can have a permanent bottle depot; because... there are no suitable locations, leases are too expensive, resident will allow it when you-know-where freezes over.
But every neighbourhood has an empty lot, or an empty storefront. I'd like to see single-day, pop-up bottle depots, which, with suitable advance advertising, could partially meet the need for a depot in any neighbourhood, rich or poor. Like, say... Kitsilano, which is still without a new bottle depot.
Rough visualization of an "instant" bottled depot.[/caption]Every neighbourhood in Vancouver plays host to a variety of binners who fish the neighbourhood's stream of returnable beverage containers. Unfortunately not every neighbourhood can have a permanent bottle depot; because... there are no suitable locations, leases are too expensive, resident will allow it when you-know-where freezes over.
But every neighbourhood has an empty lot, or an empty storefront. I'd like to see single-day, pop-up bottle depots, which, with suitable advance advertising, could partially meet the need for a depot in any neighbourhood, rich or poor. Like, say... Kitsilano, which is still without a new bottle depot.
It finally looks like Vancouver's oldest bottle depot, United We Can, will be moving to a new location -- reportedly in an industrial area, far from it's present location on Hastings Street, in the heart of the Downtown Eastside.
According to a recent article in The Vancouver Sun newspaper, The not-for-profit depot, which has been a fixture on East Hastings for more than a decade, is expected to move to a 21,000 sq. ft. warehouse at 455 Industrial Ave. The property is owned by the City of Vancouver.
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