Garbage and Green Bin Schedule:

• Kootenay Region PDF map
• Searchable map tool

To have a copy of the Garbage and Green Bin schedule mailed to you please contact the RDKB.

Recycling Schedule:

• Recycle BC 2024-2025 RDKB Recycling Schedule (Kootenay Region)

To have a copy of the Recycling schedule mailed to you please contact GFL Environmental at 1.866.596.5444.

For more information on what can go in your blue box, visit Recycle BC.

Garbage and Green Bin Schedule:

• Christina Lake
• Christina Lake Boat Access Residents – Garbage and Recycling Schedule
• Area D/Rural Grand Forks & City of Grand Forks

(includes the Yard & Garden Waste collection schedule for the City of Grand Forks)

• Area E/West Boundary, Midway, & Greenwood

To have a copy of the Garbage and Green Bin schedule mailed to you please contact the RDKB.

Recycling Schedule:

• Recycle BC 2024-2025 RDKB Recycling Schedule (Boundary Region)

To have a copy of the Recycling schedule mailed to you please contact GFL Environmental at 1.888.791.1190

For more information on what can go in your blue box, visit Recycle BC.

Kootenay residents (Rossland, Warfield, Trail, Montrose, Fruitvale, Areas A & B):

If your garbage, green bin, or recycling was not picked up and you did not receive an ‘Oops!’ sticker call GFL Environmental at 250.367.0099.

Boundary Residents (Christina Lake, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway, and Areas C, D, and E – excluding Big White):

If your garbage, green bin, or recycling was not picked up and you did not receive an ‘Oops!” sticker call GFL Environmental at 250.442.1538.

If you are new to the Kootenay area and need a green bin or if your bin has been damaged by the collection truck, please fill out and submit this form.

Still have questions? Contact us at 250.368.0231 (Toll Free: 1.800.355.7352) or email at knowwaste@rdkb.com

If you are new to the Boundary area and need a green bin or if your bin has been damaged by the collection truck, please fill out and submit this form.

Still have questions? Contact us at 250.368.0231 (Toll Free: 1.800.355.7352) or email at knowwaste@rdkb.com

Bears are always looking for their next meal and are attracted by anything that smells. If we contain or eliminate items that cause odours, we remove a wildlife attractant. You can minimize a bear’s access to your garbage, green bin, and recycling by following a few basic guidelines:

• Store your garbage, green bin, and recycling bins in a closed, locked garage or shed, even if empty – the bins will hold a residual smell.
• If a bin is stored outdoors, secure it to a post using a cable so that it can’t be dragged away.
• Place bins at the roadside only on the morning they are collected – never the night before.
• Put your green bin out for collection every week, even if you only have a small amount of organics in the bin.
• Put meat, bones, dairy, oils, fat, and fruit in your green bin – never in your backyard compost bin.
• Minimize odours by freezing meat and other smelly food scraps, and don’t put them in the green bin until collection day.
• Keep bins clean – use a bin liner or rinse your bins after each use… see ‘Tips to Reduce the ‘Yuck’ Factor’. 

What else can I do to be bear aware?

Visit WildSafe BC for more information about how to reduce human-wildlife conflicts and make your yard or home less attractive or other wild (or domestic) scavengers.

The standard 80 litre green bin distributed to residents free of charge by the RDKB are critter-resistant (to racoons, rodents, etc.) but not bear resistant.

Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee certified bear-resistant green bins are available for purchase through our bear bin trade-in program for Kootenay residents who live in bear-frequented areas and are unable to keep their bins secured.

How to get a bear bin:

• Step 1 – Fill out the Bear Bin Trade-In Form here or call us and we will fill it out for you!
• Step 2 – You will be contacted by RDKB staff to arrange for payment and a pick up time at McKelvey Creek Landfill or the main RDKB office in Trail.
• Step 3 – Bring your CLEAN 80 litre standard critter-resistant bin to the arranged location for trade-in.
• Step 4 – Pay and pick up your new bin. Trade in cost is $200.00 including GST.

Note: Once you purchase a Bear Bin, you keep it! If you move to another residence, let the RDKB know, and take your bin with you.

Bear resistant bins are not available for Boundary residents at this time.

Contact us at 250.368.9148 (Toll Free: 1.800.355.7352) or email at knowwaste@rdkb.com

We live in bear country and that comes with the responsibility of taking action to prevent human-bear conflict. The single best way to keep the public and bears safe is by ensuring that attractants, such as organics, garbage, petfood and birdseed, are securely stored.

Following are some tips on how to bear-safe your yard:

• Put meat, fish, bones, dairy, grease, fat, grains and fruit in your green bin – never in your backyard compost bin.
• Feed pets indoors and store pet food in a secure building.
• Pick ripe and fallen fruit daily.
• Use bird feeders only during winter months, when bears are hibernating, or take them in at night. Clean up spilled bird seed from around your feeder.
• Clean your barbeque after each use by burning off uncooked food and emptying the drip pan.
• Provide a secure enclosure for livestock and consider installing electric perimeter fencing. Store feed in a secure location and clean up any uneaten food at the end of each day.

What else can I do to be bear aware?

Visit WildSafe BC for more information about how to reduce human-wildlife conflicts and make your yard or home less attractive or other wild (or domestic) scavengers.