Gibsons Recycling Depot has advanced to the finals in this year's Successful You Awards (SYA) and they hope to bring home the win in the Best Green Business category later this month.
"We're a small town entity and we're up against some very significant big city companies. I just can't believe that we're even in the finals to tell you the truth. Our perspective now is we're the little engine that could and we'll just go put our best foot forward," said owner Buddy Boyd.
Gibsons Recycling Depot will be competing against three Vancouver based companies and one from Pemberton on Feb. 15 in the Best Green Business category.
All finalists will have to present a 10-minute business pitch to a panel of industry experts and successful entrepreneurs to be considered for the award.
Boyd said he's already working on that pitch.
"I'm actually structuring it right now so it's kind of really fresh. It's really coming up with the answers to the questions that they've asked us already and that's 'how did you get started? Who have been your supporters and why did you do this?' So basically we're going to go right back to 2003 when we first started and talk about how we got to here and why we do what we do," Boyd said. "We're environmentalists first and we're community minded second and the third part of the equation for us is the business end of it really."
Winners of this year's SYA will be announced at an awards ceremony in the Crystal Pavilion Ballroom at the Pan Pacific Vancouver on Feb. 28.
Finalists will be joined by Global BC news anchor Aaron McArthur as MC and former Olympian and Canucks star Trevor Linden as the keynote speaker.
To find out more about Gibsons Recycling go to www.gibsonsrecycling.ca.
