Maple Ridge

Starting January 1, 2025, Recycle BC is assuming responsibility for Maple Ridge’s residential curbside and multi-family recycling services.   

The City of Maple Ridge’s contract with Recycle BC is set to expire at the end of 2024, prompting a review of how recycling services are provided. After careful consideration of various factors, The City of Maple Ridge has decided that transitioning responsibility to Recycle BC for curbside and multi-family recycling collection services represents the next step in the evolution of recycling for Maple Ridge.  

Yes. Maple Ridge is focused on a redesign and expansion of the Recycling Depot and will continue to accept recycling materials included in the Recycle BC program.   

Recycle BC is a not-for-profit organization responsible for residential packaging and paper product recycling throughout British Columbia, servicing over two million households or over 99% of BC through curbside, multi-family and/or depot services. Recycle BC ensures packaging and paper products are collected from residential households and recycling depots, to be sorted and are responsibly managed and recycled.  

Recycle BC provides recycling services either directly to communities or by working in partnership with local governments, First Nations, private companies, and other not-for-profit organizations. The Recycle BC program is funded by businesses like retailers, manufacturers, and restaurants that supply packaging and paper products to BC residents, shifting recycling costs away from homeowners. 

Recycle BC awarded its curbside collection contract in Maple Ridge to Remple Disposal for residential curbside recycling collection and Waste Control Services for multi-family buildings.  

Are the same materials accepted? 

While all existing recycling material is included, households will have to sort material slightly different:  

• Flexible plastics (wrappers, plastic bags, etc.) go in the red/pink box or flexible plastics recycling cart.   

• Hard plastic and metal containers, cartons, and paper cups go in the blue box or mixed container recycling cart.   

• Paper, including cardboard and boxboard, goes in the yellow bag or mixed paper recycling cart.   

• Glass bottles and jars go in the grey box or glass cart.  

Closer to the transition time, Recycle BC will provide you with stickers to place on your red/pink and blue boxes to help with the changes. 

For help sorting visit RecycleBC.ca/materials or download the Recycle BC app.  

Yes, you will continue to use the same boxes and bags as you have now, you’ll just sort the items slightly differently.  

Starting January 1, 2025, you should contact Recycle BC’s collection contractor for missed pick-ups, replacement boxes or bags or schedule questions. 
Prior to January 1^st, 2025 all inquiries can continue to be directed to Ridge Meadows Recycling Society.  

You can also contact Recycle BC resident support at info@recyclebc.ca or 778-588-9504.

Residential recycling collection service comes at no cost to residents. The Recycle BC program is funded by the businesses that supply packaging and paper to BC residents, shifting recycling costs away from taxpayers. 

The City of Maple Ridge joined the Recycle BC program in May 2014, and, like many communities in the province, was receiving a financial incentive from Recycle BC to manage residential recycling collection. The City of Maple Ridge did this by providing funding to Ridge Meadows Recycling Society to collect the recycling, and Municipal staff oversaw and managed the contract. Residential recycling is funded by Recycle BC stewards that supply packaging and paper into the BC market, shifting costs away from taxpayers. 

Recycle BC already directly provides recycling collection in many areas of the province including the Cities of Vancouver, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Langley, Coquitlam, Revelstoke, Prince George, Quesnel, the Village of Anmore, West Vancouver, the University Endowment Lands, and Regional Districts of North Okanagan, Central Kootenay, and Kootenay Boundary.