BOTTLE DEPOT customer Kevin Dhaliwal examines huge col- lection of containers that have been returned for refunds. Depot business on growth track RUNNING ON empty is turning out to be a healthy business for a local recycling firm. Since opening in February, the Terrace Bottle Depot's business is growing, says co-owner Gra- ham Middleton. “We can send an average 70,000 wnits per truck and that’s working out to 120,000 units a week,”’ said Middleton of the amount of cans and bottles col- lected and shipped away. The depot’s business founds- tion is a contract with Encorp Pa- cific, a company made up of major food retailers, , That contract provides the depot with all of the refundable cans and bottles generated by. those companies. Encorp.Pacific’s contracts with : boitle depots are’ designed ‘to. divert the Dow: of-empties fron stores to the depots instead. “It's working out very. well. We're very pleased,’” said Mid- dleton of the depot’s deal with and soft drink Encorp’s founding companies which inchide Co-op, Overwaitea and Safeway. Food stores were also worried about the health implications of accepting and storing empty con- . lainers. _ Middleton and his wife Shirley have recently expanded to open a similar bottle depot in Prince Rupert. Terrace is the central collection point for empties from Prince Rupert and Kitimat and points north. A depot trick, for instance, makes regular trips as far east as Gitsequecla and north to Kitwan- cool. ‘In addition to the Middletons, there are twa full time employees here and in Prince Rupert. The depots ‘have diversified -: - their business by taking’in empty. beer cans and bottles and cooler - containers. The Terrace depot is located on Railway Ave., beside the Canac - Kitchens outlet. Come to Shell for Mileage. Terrace Shell Staff welcome | NORM & PAUL HOLMES (N-& J. 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There'll be 15 to 20 full and part time employees at the store, This is the second of two store projects being undertaken by the com- pany in the northwest this year, Scheduled for a November opening is a SAAN store in Kitimat, SAAN, Incorporated in 1947, takes its name from the Phrase Surplus, Amy, Air Force and Navy. : Tourism meet BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS is the theme Oct. 13-14 of the North by Northwest Tourism Association’s annual general mecting in Houston. - Delegates and others will learn ways of combining resources for bet- ter results first ina seminar and then by a panel discussion. — Also scheduled are sessions on tracking the effects of promotional budgets and on the provircial government’s new “stay. at home” tourism marketing scheme. Registration costs go up after Sept. 30. For further information, con- fact the tourism association in Smither at 604-847-5227, Have lunch THE IMPACT on small business of the provincial government's new employment standards act on small businesses is the subject tomorrow of a Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting. Scheduled to speak is Don Baron, the co-chair of the B.C, Chamber of Commerce’s labour committee. Chambers have been critical of the changes, saying they not only in- crease paperwork but impose additional financial burdens. Tickets are $13 and il takes place at the Coast Inn of the West at 11:45 a.m. Call the chamber at 635-2063 to make a reservation. 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