Food Scraps curbside collection in Metro Vancouver
Vancity is partnering with Metro Vancouver to encourage you to separate your food scraps from your garbage. About one third of the average home’s garbage is made up of food scraps, so we’re working to help bring these food scraps to a regional composting facility where high-quality compost is made and sold to local landscapers and farmers. Here is region-specific information on your municipality’s curbside collection schedule:
| Municipality2 | Organics Pick-up Frequency |
Garbage Pick-up Frequency |
| Burnaby | W | W |
| Coquitlam | W | W |
| Delta | W | W |
| Langley | W | B3 |
| New Westminster | W | B |
| W | W | |
| Pitt Meadows | W | W |
| Port Coquitlam | W/B4 | B |
| Port Moody | W | B |
| Richmond | W | W |
| Surrey | W | B |
| Vancouver | W | B |
| West Vancouver | W | W |
| White Rock | W | W |
W = weekly
B = bi-weekly
Items collected: meat, bones, dairy, grains, food soiled paper5 (napkins, cardboard, boxboard, waxed papers/cardboard), yard waste (branches, weeds and grass clippings).
1 Most municipalities are looking at programs for multi-family residences. Please contact your municipality for more information. Private collection services are available.
2 Municipalities not mentioned have not started food scraps programs yet for single families.
3Garbage pick-up for the Township of Langley is weekly.
4Weekly in the summer and bi-weekly in the winter.
5Does not include coffee cups and similar beverage containers – nothing with plastic or PLA linings.
For more information on food scrap recycling, visit Metro Vancouver’s website.
