2011 FCM Sustainable Communities Awards Winner — Waste: Overview

Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia

Zero Waste Program

The Regional District of Nanaimo owns and operates the Regional Landfill and the Church Road Transfer Station, and provides residential garbage collection and recycling service to more than 25,000 households in the region. In 2002, the municipality committed to "zero waste" as its long-term target and, in 2004, set an interim goal of diverting 75 per cent of the region's waste from the landfill by 2010.