Garbage & recycling — Castlegar, British Columbia

When is garbage and recycling collected? Are there bag limits or sorting rules?

City of Castlegar has 1 adopted bylaw on file, verified against the original document on 2026-06-08.

Residential Curbside Collection & Disposal (Consolidated) adopted bylaw
collection schedule organics weekly; garbage bi-weekly; recyclable materials bi-weekly on alternate week from garbage (s.8) s.8
sorting required True s.4
container or bag limit one 242L bear-resistant organics cart, one 121L garbage cart, two recycling containers per eligible property (s.5) 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) Schedule B, s.31, s.32, s.33
fee garbage $160.07/yr; organics $156.47/yr; recycling $4.65/yr (Schedule A Bylaw 1448) Schedule A Bylaw 1448
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Regulates residential curbside waste and recycling collection and disposal in the City of Castlegar (Bylaw 1408, consolidated).

Machine-readable: garbage-recycling.json · Official website: https://www.castlegar.ca/ · Last verified 2026-06-08 · Garbage & recycling in other municipalities