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Recycle bottles. Support street outreach.
Your empties can help change someone’s day.
Schedule a convenient bottle pickup, skip the depot, and direct your refundable containers toward BeTheChangeYYC’s practical support for people experiencing homelessness in Calgary.
Three simple steps
Bring the bottle depot to you.
SkipTheDepot makes it easy to turn refundable bottles and cans into direct support for BeTheChangeYYC—without a trip to the depot.
Schedule your pickup
Choose a pickup time and enter an approximate number of bags for collection.
Help make a difference
Your recyclables are collected and their value supports frontline outreach in Calgary.
More than recycling
Turn everyday containers into practical help.
Every bottle donation helps strengthen a volunteer-powered response that meets people where they are. It helps create consistent access to essentials, health and safety response, and connections to housing, shelter, treatment and community services.
A simple way to give
Good for your time, the environment and Calgary’s community.
Convenient
Book a pickup from home instead of spending time and fuel at the depot.
Purposeful
Direct the value of your recyclables toward practical, frontline street outreach.
Community-minded
Recycle responsibly while helping BeTheChangeYYC keep showing up for neighbours in need.
Pickup availability, account requirements and pickup details are managed by SkipTheDepot. Use the button above to start your donation.
Ready when you are
Make your bottles count for more.
Choose BeTheChangeYYC when you schedule your pickup and help support Calgary street outreach.
Your recycling supports real outreach
Every pickup helps keep practical support moving.
Bottle donations become flexible support for the essentials, safety response and community navigation that our team provides on Calgary’s streets.
Ways to help
Choose the way you can make a difference.
Community powered
Our Partners
Public, community, education and business partners strengthen BeTheChangeYYC’s frontline outreach across Calgary.
