Click here to download the 2022-2023 Regional District of North Okanagan Recycling Guide. The Recycling Guide outlines how to sort your recycling, shows what is not accepted, and includes a collection calendar. You can also download the Recycle BC app from Google Play or the iTunes App Store to access your collection schedule online, search for depots, and sign up for reminders.
2022 – 2023 Recycling Guide:
Please note the Armstrong Bottle Depot is no longer accepting paper and cardboard, or mixed containers. Please use your home recycling bins.
Contact Emterra Environmental Customer Service
Phone: 250-545-4245
Email: askmebc2@emterra.ca
Use our address search tool to view your curbside recycling collection schedule and nearest Recycle BC depots. You can also sign up for reminders and import your schedule into your online calendar.
If you have smartphone, you can download our app from your app store by searching “Recycle BC.”
Starting September 21, 2022, Desert Cove joins the Recycle BC program. A recycling guide, reusable yellow bag, and blue and grey boxes will be delivered on September 10 and 11 to residents. Plastic bags are no longer accepted for recycling collection. Contact Emterra Environmental with questions regarding collection and bag/box replacements: 250-545-4245 | askmebc2@emterra.ca.
Information on the materials accepted in Recycle BC’s packaging and paper recycling program is available here.
Please sort curbside recycling as follows:
Sorting materials properly into three categories can reduce the amount of contamination in the recycling streams and ensure that more of the materials collected are successfully recycled. Glass bottles and jars can break easily with small pieces becoming embedded in other material resulting in contamination. Proper sorting will also reduce the health and safety risk for drivers.
Learn how to correctly sort your materials using the following resources:
There is no limit to how much recycling you can set out. If all of your materials do not fit in your recycling boxes, please try consolidating them. For example, bulky plastic jugs, cartons, and boxes can be flattened; smaller metal cans be placed inside larger metal cans; plastic containers can be fitted inside each other (e.g. yogurt containers), etc. If you have additional recyclables that do not fit into your blue boxes, these can be placed in a rigid container of your choice, such as a laundry hamper. Corrugated cardboard that does not fit in your bag can be flattened, cut into pieces no larger than 30” x 30” (76 cm x 76 cm), and stacked between your recycling containers.
If you regularly have more recycling than your boxes can accommodate, you might want to purchase another blue recycling box, as long as the container is similar in size and shape to your existing ones. Most hardware stores carry blue boxes of different sizes. You can also purchase a new container by contacting Emterra Environmental at askmebc2@emterra.ca or 250-545-4245.
Curbside recycling collection is every other week. Please check the Curbside Recycling Guide or address search tool for your collection day.
Contact our collection partner Emterra Environmental to report a missed collection or any other customer service issues by calling 250-545-4245 or via email askmebc2@emterra.ca.
In the North Okanagan, curbside recycling is collected by Emterra Environmental. If you have questions about your recycling collection or need additional information, please contact:
Email: askmebc2@emterra.ca
Phone: 250-545-4245
Each approved curbside household receiving blue box curbside collection service is eligible to receive:
Please contact Emterra Environmental, the company that Recycle BC selected to collect curbside recycling in North Okanagan, for recycling containers.
Email: askmebc2@emterra.ca
Phone: 250-545-4245
No. Your local government no longer provides curbside collection of residential packaging and paper. As of May 19, 2014, per BC’s Recycling Regulation, the businesses that supply packaging and paper to residents are responsible for financing the collection and recycling of these materials. Recycle BC works on behalf of these businesses to manage your recycling program.
If you have additional questions for Recycle BC about these changes, please email info@recyclebc.ca.
No. Under the BC Recycling Regulation, businesses that supply packaging and paper to BC residents are responsible for managing recycling programs. Recycle BC uses fees paid by businesses to pay for the curbside recycling program.
No. Recycle BC’s packaging and paper recycling program does not affect garbage collection.
