District of West Vancouver

District of West Vancouver

The District of West Vancouver Curbside Yard Trimmings Collection Program has expanded to accept both food scraps and food soiled paper beginning the first week of May 2012.

The new program is called the Green Can Program and is available to all residences eligible for curbside yard trimmings collection.

Residents may include food scraps with their yard trimmings for curbside recycling.

Recycle your food scraps in 3 easy steps:

What can I use as a Kitchen Container?

You can use any container to collect food scraps and food-soiled paper in the kitchen. For example, you can reuse large yogurt containers or ice cream buckets with lids or you can use a few sheets of old newspaper to wrap your scraps. You can also buy a kitchen container or small Bag to Earth countertop paper food waste bags from local retailers such as hardware stores or home and garden shops.

Empty your kitchen container into your green can as needed. Freeze or refrigerate meat, fish, bones and plate scrapings until collection day.

Note that kitchen containers are for storing food scraps indoors only and are not accepted curbside.

What can I use as a Green Can?

Use the 46 L Green Can that was delivered to your home in May 2012.

Residents who received a 'missed you' card instead of a green can may trade in their voucher at Municipal Hall.

If you receive municipal garbage collection but did not receive a green can or a 'missed you' card, West Vancouver has a can for you too. For more information, visit westvancouver.ca.

46 L Orbis Wheeled Carts are also available for purchase at local retailers such as hardware stores or home and garden shops. Identify your can with a Green Can Decal.

What Goes In and What Stays Out

For information on acceptable and non-acceptable materials click here.

Frequently Asked Questions

Visit our FAQ Section for more information on the Green Can Program.

Backyard Composting

If you backyard compost, please continue to do so and use your Green Can for items that are difficult to compost safely in bear country such as cooked plate scrapings, meat, bones and dairy.

What about bears?

The North Shore is natural bear habitat. Although residents will simply be putting food scraps into the green can instead of the garbage can, we can minimize human-bear conflict by managing our garbage, green can and other bear attractants responsibly. View our tips on being Bear Smart.

Yard Trimmings

Yard trimmings can be placed in your Green Can and in cans with Yard Trimmings Decals. Yard trimmings will also continue to be accepted in paper yard waste bags with tops folded down. For information on preparing your yard trimmings for collection, click here.

More Info

For more information on the District of West Vancouver's Curbside Yard Trimmings Collection Program, visit the District of West Vancouver website.

For more information on the District of West Vancouver's Green Can Program, visit westvancouver.ca/greencan.