The yard and garden waste collected at landfills is chipped and made into windrows to be composted. Diverting yard and garden waste from your garbage:
- Extends the life of a landfill
- Reduces greenhouse gas emissions (methane gas)
- Produces an end product, compost, which can be used by the community to put nutrients back into the soil.

Paper bags are acceptable in the yard waste pile, but plastic bags must be emptied.
Small loads
Free disposal of yard and garden waste will remain in place for smaller vehicles or trailers with a single axle including:
- cars
- SUVs
- pick-up trucks
- single-axle dump/bin trucks
- single-axle trailers
Bulk loads
There will be a tipping fee applied to bulk loads of yard and garden waste disposed of at Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) landfills beginning March 1, 2021.
The purpose of this fee change is to standardize disposal rates for larger commercial type operations doing land clearing type activities.
Rates