Concrete disposal,
and the rebar question
Three regional districts, three completely different answers on rubble. The CRD prohibits it outright, the CVRD charges $94 a tonne for it, and the RDN bans any piece over 0.03 m or 70 kg while taking the small stuff at the C&D rate. Whether the slab has steel in it decides most of the private options before price gets a look in.
Does it have rebar in it?
Butler Sooke and Keating specify no metal; Duncan does not accept concrete. Compare CVRD, Sharecost and PND as alternatives requiring a phone check: their published rubble rates do not state whether rebar is accepted. Do not treat an absent rule as permission to tip a rebarred slab.
The CVRD fee schedule does not say either way whether rebarred concrete rides at the rubble rate. That is a phone call to 250-746-2540, not an assumption. The CVRD does separately refuse rebar and large metal hardware in its treated wood stream, which is a reason to ask rather than to guess.
Compare Butler Sooke and Keating (call for pricing) with PND in Langford (priced per load), Sharecost in Nanaimo (per cubic yard) and CVRD sites (per tonne). Check the accepted material, load-size limits and haul distance alongside the rate.
Clean concrete is also worth something to a recycler, which is why the yards that take it are the yards that sell crushed concrete back. It is the one demolition stream where the gate might not be the enemy.
2 sites in this dataset state a no-metal rule outright. 7 publish a rubble rate and say nothing about rebar either way — those are the ones to phone before you load, not after.
Published rubble rates
Three pricing models, none of them comparable to each other without a density: per tonne at the CVRD, per cubic yard at Sharecost, and flat per load at PND.
| Site | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bings Creek Recycling & Waste Management CentreDuncan / North Cowichan. Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock). It went $25/tonne, then $75 in January 2026, then $94 on the live fee page. Press coverage still quotes $75, which under-quotes the real bill by about 20%. No ceramics or glass. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 02 | Peerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-OffLadysmith. Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock). CVRD-wide rate. Check the winter opening days before you leave the yard. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 03 | Meade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-OffLake Cowichan. Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock). CVRD-wide rate. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 04 | Landscape Recycling CentreNanaimo. Concrete & rock debris (broken concrete, retaining wall block, paving stone, boulders to 2ft). Bin #28, commercial truck or trailer, MAXIMUM 8 YARDS. Small loads: under 1/3 yd $14, under 2/3 yd $22, under 1 yd $28. Rebar status is not published. | per cubic yard | $28/yd³ |
| 05 | PND Soil & GravelLangford / Victoria. Concrete — tandem load. Flat per load, not per tonne, so a heavy load is proportionally cheap. Rebar status is not stated on the price list — call. | per tandem load, flat | $200/tandem load |
| 06 | PND Soil & GravelLangford / Victoria. Concrete — single axle load. | per single axle load, flat | $85/single axle load |
| 07 | PND Soil & GravelLangford / Victoria. Concrete — small pickup load. | per pickup load, flat | $40/pickup load |
Verified August 26, 2026. Sharecost's published commercial rate covers a truck or trailer up to 8 yards; a tandem typically runs 10 to 14. PND prices flat per load, so the load price cannot be compared with a per-yard or per-tonne rate without the actual load quantity. Check the applicable limit at every operator before dispatch.
Call for pricing
MacNutt Enterprises — Lake Cowichan
A concrete tip inside the Cowichan Valley that is not the CVRD, where the rate is $94/tonne. Worth the call.
250-749-4067Butler Concrete & Aggregate — Sooke
"No metal" means rebarred concrete is refused here.
250-818-4921Butler Concrete & Aggregate — Keating
"No metal" means rebarred concrete is refused here.
250-818-4921840 Industrial Way, Saanichton (operator disputed)
DISPUTED SITE. No published source carries a tipping rate for this yard, and the operator at this address does not agree across sources: directory listings return Peninsula Rock Products, other records name Capital City. Get the operator, the number and the unit on the phone before you commit a load.
250-652-5064Gates that refuse rubble
| Site | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Hartland LandfillSaanich. Concrete; Asphalt and Rubble; Aggregate. CRD Bylaw 3881, Schedule D — Prohibited Waste. The bylaw defines "rubble" as gravel, brick, concrete block, refractory material, road asphalt or rock. All of it is prohibited. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 02 | Regional Landfill (Cedar)Nanaimo (Cedar). Concrete, asphalt pieces or rocks larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kg. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. The ban is precise: pieces OVER 0.03 m or OVER 70 kg. Small rubble can still ride in as construction and demolition waste at the C&D rate. A broken slab cannot. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 03 | Church Road Transfer StationParksville. Concrete, asphalt pieces or rocks larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kg. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 04 | Sooke SoilSooke. Concrete, rubble and construction waste. Sooke Soil services page. Explicitly refuses construction waste, painted and treated wood, scotch broom, and fill contaminated with concrete, brick or wire. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 05 | Butler Concrete & Aggregate — DuncanDuncan. Clean concrete. Butler Concrete & Aggregate — aggregate page. Butler takes clean concrete at Sooke and Keating only. A Cowichan demolition with a rebarred slab therefore has no Butler option at all and falls back to the CVRD at $94/tonne. | not accepted at the Duncan yard | NOT ACCEPTED |
Does rebar change where I can take it?
How much does concrete disposal cost in Victoria BC?
Compare PND Soil & Gravel in Langford with Butler Concrete & Aggregate at Sooke and Keating. PND publishes $200 per tandem load, $85 per single axle and $40 per small pickup; its rebar rule is not stated. Butler accepts clean concrete with no metal and requires a call for pricing. For a wider-area comparison, Sharecost in Nanaimo publishes $28 per cubic yard, with an 8-yard commercial-load cap, while CVRD sites publish $94 per tonne. These are different pricing units, and hauling is additional. Hartland prohibits concrete and rubble.
Does rebar in the concrete change where I can take it?
It is usually the deciding factor, before price. Butler Concrete & Aggregate accepts clean concrete with NO METAL, which means a rebarred slab is refused at Sooke and Keating, and Butler does not take concrete at its Duncan yard at all. The CVRD fee schedule says nothing either way about rebar in its rubble line, so it needs a call to 250-746-2540. Sharecost in Nanaimo and PND in Langford both publish rubble rates and neither publishes a rebar rule. If the slab has steel in it, phone first — it is the question that gets loads turned away at the gate.
Where do I take broken concrete in Nanaimo?
Sharecost Landscape Recycling Centre at 1716 Northfield Road in Nanaimo publishes $28 per cubic yard for concrete and rock debris, including boulders to 2 feet, with an 8-yard commercial-load cap. For a wider-area comparison, MacNutt Enterprises at Lake Cowichan lists hardscaping-debris recycling but publishes no rate, while CVRD sites farther south publish $94 per tonne. Confirm rebar acceptance with the operator. The RDN prohibits concrete, asphalt pieces and rocks larger than 0.03 metres or heavier than 70 kilograms at Cedar and Church Road; it is not an alternative for broken slab.
What does the CVRD charge for concrete and rubble?
The live CVRD fee page reads $94 per tonne for rubble — asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel and rock — at Bings Creek, Peerless Road and Meade Creek. That is the figure as at 26 August 2026. The rate has moved a long way: $25 per tonne before January 2026, then $75 in the January 2026 press coverage, then $94. Quote off the widely reported $75 and you land about 20% short of the real bill; $94 is 25% ABOVE $75, which is not the same statement. Quote off the old $25 and you are out by nearly four times. No ceramics or glass.
Is it cheaper to recycle concrete than to dump it?
Often the recycled product is the cheaper thing to buy, which is a different question but worth knowing on the same trip. PND Soil & Gravel sells 1 inch recycled concrete at $17.00 per full cubic yard against $37.50 for virgin 3/4 road base at the same gate. Butler carries recycled road base and crushed concrete and publishes no price. MacNutt at Lake Cowichan states it accepts and recycles hardscaping debris including concrete and asphalt, inside a regional district that charges $94 per tonne for the same material, and publishes no rate for it.
Slab out, rubble gone
Demolition haul-off and construction waste removal across the Cowichan Valley and Greater Victoria. We sort it before it moves, because it has to be.