With the new cart system for garbage and organics collections in Langley City, each address that receives City collection services gets one 240L garbage cart and one 240L organics cart. Only detached homes and non-strata townhouses receive this service. Most people in Langley City have private collection services as they live in apartments and strata townhouses. People can upsize or downsize their carts or purchase additional carts from the City. Generally, yard waste is placed in the organic cart; however, at certain times of the year, such as fall, more yard waste is generated. As a pilot this fall, from October 6 to October 31, the City allowed people to put out extra yard waste next to their organics bin in paper yard waste bags. Last night, Langley City Council approved a staff recommendation to extend this extra yard waste pickup pilot until November 30, 2025.
Langley City staff will gather the data from this pilot to determine if it should be made permanent going forward. The neighborhoods with the highest utilization of the extra yard waste pickup are Uplands/Mossey Estates and the Simonds neighborhood west of 200th Street. This makes sense, as these are the areas with the largest lots in our community. If the program becomes permanent, Council would need to consider whether it is a fall-only or a fall and spring program, the duration of the program per season, and how people will pay for the additional collection. Do all people who receive City collection services pay for it, or only those who put out our extra paper yard waste bags? This year, the cost of the pilot is being absorbed into the current City budget.
Of the approximately 3,600 addresses that received City collection service, 112 addresses are waiting for a larger 360-litre organics cart, and 83 are waiting for a larger 360-litre garbage cart. City staff expect these carts to be delivered sometime in December.
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