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New recycling depot to move within year Part of the Encorp contract includes the need to relocate, but a site hasn’t been chosen By Emily Wessel THE HERALD
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The recycling depot has a new name, and new owners plan to move it’s location within a year. The Merritt Return-It Depot, formerly the George Hale Bottle Depot, reopened on Oct. 2
under new management following the sudden closure of the family-owned business in July. But new owner Pauline Warren said she and her husband are moving the operation out from under the tents at 2326 Clapperton Ave. within a year, as part
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of their contract with depot licenser Encorp Pacific. “We’re just leasing here until we find a place to move to,” Warren said of the current location, which is adjacent to the former owners’ house. So far, she said, finding a building or
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town area... there are just so many different things we have to look at for it to be right.” Warren said the way the depot is now organized puts it in the bottom 15 in the province, but she is aiming to make it a five-star location by Encorp’s standards. Features of a five-star
next project. “It’s nicer for the customer to come into a five-star depot. It’s clean, it’s organized, it’s efficient,” Warren said. “That’s just our goal as new depot owners: to just get it up to that best standard that we can. It has such good potential.”
facility include automatic doors, a paved driveway and parking lot, rollers that bring recyclables into the warehouse and permanent walls. The couple has owned a three-star depot in Houston, B.C., for over three years and had the Merritt depot in mind for a while as their
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