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Gibsons Recycle Depot has been named as one of the Top Five Finalists as the Best Green Business in the Successful You Awards from Small Business BC. The top five finalists from each of the six categories will now present a ten minute business pitch to a panel of industry experts and successful entrepreneurs in Vancouver on February 15.
When asked what they would tell the panel in their alloted ten minutes, owners Buddy Boyd and Barb Hetherington said, "We"ll tell them that we are the only Resource Recovery center in BC, we have receievd no help from local governments and that it has been a bottom up success with the help of dedicated local recyclers in the Gibsons area."
They feel that this nomination "validates our idea that waste isn't waste until it is wasted and that many local jobs are waiting to be created by mining the discard streams while helping the environment at the same time", said Boyd. " This will help spread the word to other communities that Zero Waste and Resource Recovery is something that is very easy to impliment in any community, if there is the politcial will."
Winners will be announced at this year’s awards ceremony in Vancouver on February 28th. Another Sunshine Coast business, Hapi Foods, makers of Holy Crap cereal, was nominated in the Best Community Impact category and made it to the top ten finalists.