What if I have too much for my cart?

Garbage

Please do not overfill your carts. For occasional extra garbage, please use the Tag-a-Bag program and place an additional standard large-sized garbage bag (max 50lbs) on top of the cart or group bags 1 metre away from the cart.

If you’re finding you have extra garbage regularly, and you have utilized every opportunity to recycle all your recyclable materials, you may wish to consider upsizing your cart. Note, additional charges apply.  

To request changes to your cart size, see Cart Form here. 

Yard and Food Scraps

Please fill your yard and food scraps cart first, then place any extra yard trimmings in kraft paper bags (limit to 50lbs per bag, maximum two bags) 1 metre away from your greens cart. Our drivers will dump the cart and continue to reload the cart with extra kraft bags. Learn more here.

Extra yard trimmings can also be taken directly to the United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre (995 United Boulevard) for free drop-off (proof of residency is required).

Recycling

For occasional additional recycling, the City urges residents to take extra materials to an appropriate recycling facility. 

The Queensborough Landing Return-It Depot (Unit A - Boyne Street) and the United Boulevard Recycling and Waste Centre (995 United Blvd, Coquitlam) offer free residential drop-off for recycling materials accepted in the City's curbside recycling program. Both locations, among many other private recycling facilities, also accept other recyclable items that are not accepted in the curbside collection program.

To find out where to recycle materials at a location nearest you, please contact the Recycling Council of BC's recycling hotline at 604-RECYCLE (604-732-9253) or visit their website at www.rcbc.ca.

If your household contains a secondary suite and one single-stream recycling cart is not enough for your needs, you may wish to request an extra recycling cart at no additional charge.

To request an extra recycling cart, see Cart Form here.