Clean Wood & Lumber

Wood is a common material found in and around your home. Recycle clean wood waste such as lumber, dimensional wood, wood offcuts, boards and stumps at CVRD Recycling Centres. These materials are recycled locally into wood chips to fuel local mills.

Painted & Treated Wood

Wood waste accounts for a significant volume of landfilled construction and demolition waste and is one of the most difficult materials to recycle or reuse. In an effort to support a circular economy, painted wood is now turned into an engineered fuel to replace coal at the LaFarge Canada cement plant in Richmond, B.C.

Accepted materials include:

• Painted wood furniture 
• Pallets
• Plywood
• Particleboard
• Pressure-treated wood
• Window frames, doors
• Dimensional lumber (e.g. fence posts)

Creosote-treated wood and metal hardware (e.g. door hinges and handles) are not accepted in the program.

Rubble

Rubble or aggregate materials are commonly used in construction, landscaping and within households. While this can encompass a wide variety of materials, CVRD Recycling Centres accept:

• Asphalt
• Brick
• Concrete
• Concrete blocks
• Paving stones
• Gravel
• Rock

All rubble/aggregate materials must be free of metal, plastic, and wood to ensure that they can be recycled into new products.

When you recycle these materials such as concrete, it can be used to make new concrete or foundations material for roads and runways.

Roofing Materials

Time for a new roof and not sure what to do with the old roofing materials? Asphalt shingles are the most common roofing material for residential properties. These materials as well as tar and gravel roofing tiles are accepted at CVRD Recycling Centres for disposal.

Metal roofing materials including metal flashing should be sorted out and disposed of in the scrap metal bin at CVRD Recycling Centres.

Please be sure to remove styrofoam, membrane, or fibreglass roofing, as well as any wood, metal, concrete or wrapping/bunding paper when you drop off your roofing materials.