{"id":407145,"date":"2026-01-13T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407145\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:49:08","slug":"major-changes-are-coming-soon-to-vancouvers-recycling-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407145\/","title":{"rendered":"Major changes are coming soon to Vancouver&#8217;s recycling collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver residents living in apartments and condos will soon see some big changes to how recycling is collected at their buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Recycle BC has announced that Vancouver recycling collection at multi-unit dwellings will transition to two new contractors starting on Monday, Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The not-for-profit organization in charge of B.C.\u2019s residential packaging and paper product recycling revealed that Recycling Alternative will service the Downtown and False Creek area, while Emterra Environmental will service all other areas in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The previous service provider, Waste Management of Canada Corp., began collecting at the city\u2019s multi-unit residential buildings in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver recycling\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2233033\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vancouver-recycling-1024x640.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2233033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recycle BC<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank our current collection partner, Waste Management, for the long-term partnership, and look forward to welcoming the new contractors,\u201d stated Recycle BC on its <a href=\"https:\/\/recyclebc.ca\/where-can-i-recycle\/home-collection\/vancouver\/apartments-condos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_MsoNormal\">\u201cBoth Recycling Alternative and Emterra Environmental may reach out to the participating properties in their respective areas to identify main building contacts and inquire about logistics details in order to ensure a smooth transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recycle BC also added that a new coloured bin will also be arriving in the near future at apartments and condos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis change will also bring some exciting new changes to recycling. Soon you\u2019ll be able to recycle flexible plastics using your new pink cart, which will be arriving at your building in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vancouver recycling\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2233035\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Vancouver-recycling-1-768x1024.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2233035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recycle BC<\/p>\n<p>Examples of flexible plastics include plastic bags, flexible packaging with a plastic seal, crinkly wrappers, and protective and squishy cushion packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Only apartments and condos with pink carts will be able to recycle the flexible plastics directly into the bins. Other Vancouver buildings and residences must drop them off at a recycling depot.<\/p>\n<p>Only two Metro Vancouver municipalities \u2014 West Vancouver and Maple Ridge \u2014 offer curbside flexible plastics recycling.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication whether the program will be expanded to all Vancouver residents or other cities in the region in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"best up-and-coming neighbourhoods in Vancouver\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2158887\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/shutterstock_2532777799-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2158887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennis MacDonald\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Recycle BC, a property must meet several requirements to qualify for the apartments and condos service.<\/p>\n<p>It must be residential with more than five units and have a centralized waste collection area.<\/p>\n<p>If the property is mixed-use with both residential and commercial units, waste collection areas must be separated. Alternatively, commercial units can arrange collection of their recycling outside of Recycle BC\u2019s program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver residents living in apartments and condos will soon see some big changes to how recycling is collected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-407145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}