{
 "municipality_id": "gx-000015",
 "municipality": "Castlegar",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "British Columbia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "waste_collection",
 "label": "Garbage & recycling",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-08",
 "official_website": "https://www.castlegar.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Residential Curbside Collection & Disposal (Consolidated)",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://castlegar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Consolidated.Branded.Bylaw_.1408-Residential-Curbside-Collection-and-Disposal-Bylaw-1.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates residential curbside waste and recycling collection and disposal in the City of Castlegar (Bylaw 1408, consolidated).",
   "capture_sha256": "3722ba69040b32a7833c1ddbbf2fffdbb2c765f03007cf9458ed7562269f219f",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-08T05:38:58+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/3722ba69040b32a7833c1ddbbf2fffdbb2c765f03007cf9458ed7562269f219f.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "organics weekly; garbage bi-weekly; recyclable materials bi-weekly on alternate week from garbage (s.8)",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "one 242L bear-resistant organics cart, one 121L garbage cart, two recycling containers per eligible property (s.5)",
    "accepted_or_banned": "recyclable materials per Schedule B (PPP streams); banned: explosive/volatile/corrosive/dangerous chemicals (s.31), Christmas trees (s.32), hot ashes/liquid wastes/dead animals/oil filters (s.33)",
    "fee": "garbage $160.07/yr; organics $156.47/yr; recycling $4.65/yr (Schedule A Bylaw 1448)"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "s.8",
    "sorting_required": "s.4",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "s.5",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Schedule B, s.31, s.32, s.33",
    "fee": "Schedule A Bylaw 1448"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/bc/castlegar/garbage-recycling/text-3722ba69040b/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/bc/castlegar/garbage-recycling/"
}