Garbage Collection and Disposal
The City of Powell River provides weekly curbside garbage collection. Schedule details are available on the City’s website or to pick up a hard copy of the schedule and curbside guidelines visit City Hall.
Tla’amin Nation provides weekly curbside garbage pick-up. For details contact the Tla’amin Public Works at 778-400-8860.
There is no public garbage collection service for electoral area residents. Rural residents can contact Sunshine Disposal & Recycling at 604-485-0167 to set up private household garbage and recycling hauling services.
Rural institutional, commercial or industrial operators can contact Sunshine Disposal & Recycling or Augusta Recyclers Inc. for waste, recycling and organics pickup services.
Garbage Collection Depots
Augusta Recyclers
| Location: | 7346 Highway 101 (one quarter mile south of the Beach Garden’s Resort) |
| Phone: | 604-485-4072 |
| Hours of Operation: | 8:00am – 5:00pm, Monday – Saturday |
| Accepted Material & Rates: |
List of Accepted Material and Rates |
Lasqueti Island Residual Waste Transfer
| Location: | The Lasqueti Island Landfill was closed Permanently December 1st, 2019. The Lasqueti Island residential waste collection service is now at the barge ramp. |
| Caretaker: | Mark Bottomley at 250-333-8601 |
| Hours of Operation: | 11:00am – 1:00pm, the first Thursday of every month, except for holidays. If weather is unfavourable for travel on the first Thursday of the month, or it falls on a Holiday, the service will be provided the following Monday at the same time. |
| Accepted Materials: | “Lasqueti Island residential waste” means refuse that originates from residential, commercial and institutional sources but does not include Construction, Renovation and Demolition Waste, Prohibited Waste, Recyclable Materials, Organics or Stewardship Materials as defined in qRD Solid Waste Regulation and Tipping Fee Bylaw No. 532, 2018 |
| Rates: | $5.00 a bag and $25.00 a truck load. |