What it costs to dump on
southern Vancouver Island
Every figure below is the operating authority's own published rate, in the unit it publishes it in, with a link to where it came from. Nothing is converted, averaged or estimated. Where a site publishes nothing, this page says so and gives you the number to call instead of inventing a price.
No regional district here takes clean fill
Not one of the 6 regional-district gates on southern Vancouver Island will accept clean soil, and the three districts get there by three different routes. This catches people every week, because a landfill is the obvious place to take dirt and it is the one thing a landfill will not have.
- CRD Hartland names Clean Soil as Prohibited Waste in Bylaw 3881, Schedule D. Concrete, asphalt, rubble and aggregate are on the same list.
- RDN marks Clean Soil prohibited at both the Cedar landfill and Church Road, in Bylaw 1784, Schedule C.
- CVRD has no soil line on its fee schedule at all, and its yard waste stream explicitly excludes rock, sod and dirt. There is nothing to refuse because there is nothing to charge for.
That distinction matters when you are arguing with a site super: two of the three are quotable bylaw prohibitions, and the third is an absence. Either way the truck has to go somewhere private.
Hartland Landfill fees
1 Hartland Ave, Saanich. Everything here is per tonne. The 2026 rates are already legislated forward in Bylaw 3881 — $160/tonne now, $165 in 2027 and $170 in 2028 for refuse and clean C&D. The prohibitions are the important half of this table: Hartland will not take soil, concrete, asphalt, rubble or aggregate at any price.
| Material, as the operator words it | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Clean SoilCRD Bylaw 3881, Schedule D — Prohibited Waste. Clean fill cannot go to Hartland. This surprises people every week. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 02 | Concrete; Asphalt and Rubble; AggregateCRD 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 |
| 03 | Asphalt and RubbleCRD Bylaw 3881, Schedule D — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 04 | Clean renovation and demolition waste2026 rate, up from $155 in 2025 and already legislated to $165 in 2027 and $170 in 2028. Concrete, asphalt, rubble and soil must be sorted OUT of this load — they are prohibited. The $10 bin fee applies at the Public Drop Off Area. | per tonne | $160/tonne |
| 05 | RefuseThe $145/tonne hauler incentive rate took effect Jan 1 2026 and is published against refuse. It is a $15/tonne, 9% discount — far smaller than the RDN hauler discount. | per tonne | $160/tonne$145 licensed hauler |
| 06 | Clean wood wasteMust be source-separated from treated wood and shingles before arrival. The cheapest published clean wood rate in this dataset, by a distance. | per tonne | $80/tonne |
| 07 | Treated wood and wood products | per tonne | $110/tonne |
| 08 | Asphalt roofing shinglesMust be source-separated. | per tonne | $110/tonne |
| 09 | Stumps and branchesNearly double the yard-and-garden rate — stumps are billed as their own stream. RDN prohibits land clearing waste outright, so this is the nearest gate that takes it. | per tonne | $110/tonne |
| 10 | Yard and garden materials | per tonne | $59/tonne |
| 11 | Contaminated gypsum board / wallboardThis is the controlled-waste rate for CONTAMINATED gypsum. The schedule we read publishes no separate clean-drywall rate — call before you load. | per tonne | $311/tonne |
| 12 | Contaminated soilControlled Waste, Schedule E. Appointment required — minimum 24 hours notice, and 30 days ahead for some streams. | per tonne | $214/tonne |
| 13 | Asbestos-containing material originating inside the CRDAsbestos originating OUTSIDE the CRD is $500/tonne. Hauling Cowichan asbestos to Hartland costs more than double the in-region rate. | per tonne | $214/tonne |
Source: CRD Bylaw No. 3881, consolidated July 2025 · verified August 26, 2026.
Uncovered or unsecured load: every fee on the load is doubled. Recycling area entry is $6 non-commercial and $26 for a commercial hauler. Per-tonne fees prorate in 10 kg increments.
Bings Creek, Peerless Road & Meade Creek
The CVRD is the mirror image of the CRD. It takes rubble, at $94 per tonne, and refuses all construction and demolition waste. The CRD takes C&D and prohibits rubble. A mixed demolition load therefore has no single public home anywhere on the south Island and has to be sorted before it moves.
| Material, as the operator words it | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Bings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. 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 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Bings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. Asphalt rides in the rubble line at the CVRD. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 03 | Garbage / mixed wasteBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. No recyclables in the load or you are fined. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 04 | Lumber and wood — clean, untreated, unpaintedBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. | per tonne | $165/tonne |
| 05 | Lumber and wood — painted or treatedBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. Not accepted: creosote wood, upholstered furniture, melamine, laminate, and large metal hardware including rebar and landscape spikes. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 06 | Roofing — asphalt, tar and gravel shinglesBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. No plastic, metal or wood. Sort metal flashing separately. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 07 | Yard waste — commercial loadBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. Residential loads are free. Branches under 3in only, and explicitly NO rock, sod, dirt or stumps. | per tonne | $110/tonne |
| 08 | StumpsBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. CVRD fee schedule — yard waste excludes stumps. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 09 | Clean fill / soil / dirt / sodBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. CVRD accepted materials and fees — no soil or clean fill line. There is no soil or clean-fill line anywhere on the CVRD fee schedule, and yard waste explicitly excludes rock, sod and dirt. The CVRD does not take dirt. | no soil line exists on the fee schedule | NO LINE |
| 10 | Construction and demolition wasteBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. CVRD fee schedule — listed as not accepted. Refused on asbestos grounds, because of pre-1990 structures. Mixed C&D has to go to CRD Hartland, the RDN, or a private facility. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 11 | Drywall / gypsumBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. CVRD fee schedule. The CVRD redirects drywall to GFL Environmental Duncan (3015 Boys Rd, 250-746-4573) or South Island Organics in Cobble Hill (250-733-2108). Call ahead — special handling. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 12 | Asbestos-containing materialBings Creek Recycling & Waste Management Centre — Duncan / North Cowichan. CVRD fee schedule. Redirected to Hartland Landfill (250-360-3030), the Nanaimo Regional Landfill (250-722-2044 ext 3221) or GFL (250-746-4573). | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 13 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Peerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. CVRD-wide rate. Check the winter opening days before you leave the yard. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 14 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Peerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 15 | Garbage / mixed wastePeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 16 | Lumber and wood — clean, untreatedPeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. | per tonne | $165/tonne |
| 17 | Lumber and wood — painted or treatedPeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 18 | Yard waste — commercial loadPeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. Residential free. No rock, sod, dirt or stumps. | per tonne | $110/tonne |
| 19 | Clean fill / soil / dirtPeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. CVRD accepted materials and fees — no soil or clean fill line. | no soil line exists on the fee schedule | NO LINE |
| 20 | Construction and demolition wastePeerless Road Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Ladysmith. CVRD fee schedule — listed as not accepted. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 21 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Meade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. CVRD-wide rate. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 22 | Rubble (asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel, rock)Meade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. | per tonne | $94/tonne |
| 23 | Garbage / mixed wasteMeade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 24 | Lumber and wood — clean, untreatedMeade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. | per tonne | $165/tonne |
| 25 | Lumber and wood — painted or treatedMeade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. | per tonne | $242/tonne |
| 26 | Clean fill / soil / dirtMeade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. CVRD accepted materials and fees — no soil or clean fill line. | no soil line exists on the fee schedule | NO LINE |
| 27 | Construction and demolition wasteMeade Creek Recycling Centre & Garbage Drop-Off — Lake Cowichan. CVRD fee schedule — listed as not accepted. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
Source: CVRD accepted materials and fees · CVRD drop-off depots and recycling centres · verified August 26, 2026.
Open every day 08:00–17:00.
Closed: All statutory holidays, Easter Monday, Boxing Day and Truth and Reconciliation Day. Expect queues Sat/Sun 10:00–15:00.
Apr 1 – Oct 31: Wednesday to Sunday 09:00–17:00. Nov 1 – Mar 31: WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY, 09:00–17:00.
Closed: Summer: Monday and Tuesday. Winter: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday — three days a week, only one of them a weekday.
Apr 1 – Oct 31: Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 09:00–17:00. Nov 1 – Mar 31: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday only, 09:00–17:00.
Closed: Summer: Monday, Thursday, Friday. Winter: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.
Peerless Road is the one to watch. From 1 November to 31 March it opens Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday only — one weekday a week. Bings Creek in Duncan is open every day 8 to 5, so the winter fix is to drive to Duncan.
Cedar landfill & Church Road transfer station
The RDN publishes the biggest licensed-hauler discount in the survey: $115/tonne against a $160 gate rate, 28% off, where the CRD hauler incentive is 9%. It also has the one volume-priced line anywhere in this dataset — low density materials at $100 per cubic metre, which is not comparable to anything else on this page.
| Material, as the operator words it | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Clean SoilRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. Schedule C marks Clean Soil prohibited at BOTH RDN sites. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 02 | Concrete, asphalt pieces or rocks larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kgRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). 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 | Asphalt pieces larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kgRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 04 | Land clearing waste — stumps, tops, limbs and whole treesRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. CRD Hartland does take stumps and branches, at $110/tonne. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 05 | Construction / demolition wasteRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). General public rate effective Apr 1 2026. The licensed waste hauler rate is $115/tonne — a $45/tonne, 28% discount, three times the CRD hauler incentive. Loads 0–50 kg are a flat $8. | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 06 | Municipal solid wasteRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 07 | Roofing material (asphalt, tar and gravel shingles)Regional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 08 | Wood wasteRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). The RDN publishes ONE wood waste rate — it does not split clean from treated. At $275/tonne it is 3.4x the CRD clean wood rate of $80/tonne. | per tonne | $275/tonne |
| 09 | Wood wasteRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). One rate covers clean and treated wood here. | per tonne | $275/tonne |
| 10 | Garden / yard waste including invasive speciesRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). | per tonne | $60/tonne |
| 11 | GypsumRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C. Gypsum is marked prohibited at the Regional Landfill. Take it to Church Road in Parksville, where it is $295/tonne. | prohibited at this site — goes to Church Road | PROHIBITED |
| 12 | Contaminated soilRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). Controlled waste, pre-approval required, Regional Landfill only. Cheaper than the CRD, which charges $214/tonne for the same material. | per tonne | $145/tonne |
| 13 | AsbestosRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). The live RDN rates page lists asbestos at Church Road at $520/tonne; Bylaw 1784 treats it as controlled waste. Ring 250-722-2044 ext 3221 before you load rather than guessing. | call — the published sources disagree on which site takes it | CALL |
| 14 | Low density materialsRegional Landfill (Cedar) — Nanaimo (Cedar). UNIT TRAP. This is the only stream on the RDN sheet priced by VOLUME rather than weight, and the only cubic-metre rate anywhere in this dataset. It applies to low-density loads only — confirm your load qualifies before you rely on it. | PER CUBIC METRE | $100/m³ |
| 15 | Clean SoilChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 16 | Concrete, asphalt pieces or rocks larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kgChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 17 | Asphalt pieces larger than 0.03 m or heavier than 70 kgChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 18 | Land clearing waste — stumps, tops, limbs and whole treesChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. RDN Bylaw 1784, Schedule C — Prohibited Waste. | Prohibited Waste — not accepted at any price | PROHIBITED |
| 19 | Construction / demolition wasteChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 20 | Municipal solid wasteChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 21 | Roofing material (asphalt, tar and gravel shingles)Church Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $160/tonne$115 licensed hauler |
| 22 | Wood wasteChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $275/tonne |
| 23 | Wood wasteChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $275/tonne |
| 24 | GypsumChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. Gypsum is prohibited at the Cedar landfill, so Church Road is the RDN gate for it. | per tonne | $295/tonne |
| 25 | Garden / yard waste including invasive speciesChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. | per tonne | $60/tonne |
| 26 | AsbestosChurch Road Transfer Station — Parksville. Live Apr 2026 rate; the bylaw carried $515. Call 250-722-2044 ext 3221 first. | per tonne | $520/tonne |
Source: RDN solid waste hours and rates + Bylaw 1784 (consolidated to .08) · verified August 26, 2026.
Unsecured load surcharge is $20 in Bylaw 1784 and $25 on the live rates page; we show both rather than pick one. A load more than 15% recyclable or prohibited material takes a 20% contamination surcharge, and a licensed hauler caught doing it loses the hauler rate for that load and pays the default rate plus 20%.
The private sites that publish a rate
Read the unit column before you read the price column. Sharecost and Sooke Soil price by the cubic yard. PND prices by the flat load, which means the heavier you fill the box the cheaper the tonne gets — the exact opposite incentive to every regional district on this page.
| Material, as the operator words it | Unit | Published rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Fill soil or sod — cleanSooke Soil — Sooke. Note the unit — per YARD, not per tonne. Refuses fill containing concrete, brick, wire or other construction contaminants. | per cubic yard | $25/yd³ |
| 02 | Green waste — tandem dump truck loadSooke Soil — Sooke. Priced by the load, not by weight or volume. | per tandem load, flat | $150/tandem load |
| 03 | Green waste — 5-tonne truck loadSooke Soil — Sooke. | per 5-tonne truck load, flat | $60/5-tonne load |
| 04 | Green waste — level pickup truckSooke Soil — Sooke. Rounded loads and side boards cost extra. | per pickup load, flat, from | $15/pickup load |
| 05 | StumpsSooke Soil — Sooke. | priced by request | CALL |
| 06 | Concrete, rubble and construction wasteSooke Soil — Sooke. 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 |
| 07 | Construction wasteSooke Soil — Sooke. Sooke Soil services page. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 08 | Painted or treated woodSooke Soil — Sooke. Sooke Soil services page. | not accepted | NOT ACCEPTED |
| 09 | Excavated dirt & fill (clean fill, rock, gravel, dirt, soil, sod, sand)Landscape Recycling Centre — Nanaimo. Bin #29, commercial truck or trailer, MAXIMUM 8 YARDS. Small loads: under 1/3 yd $13, under 2/3 yd $19, under 1 yd $23. A tandem typically runs 10 to 14 yards, so confirm before you send one. | per cubic yard | $23/yd³ |
| 10 | Concrete & rock debris (broken concrete, retaining wall block, paving stone, boulders to 2ft)Landscape Recycling Centre — Nanaimo. 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 |
| 11 | Garden waste / land clearing greenLandscape Recycling Centre — Nanaimo. Bin #29, commercial truck or trailer, maximum 8 yards. | per cubic yard | $36/yd³ |
| 12 | Pit run / gravel — tandem loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. A tandem costs the same as a single axle here. Because it is a flat load price, the heavier you load the cheaper the tonne gets. | per tandem load, flat | $50/tandem load |
| 13 | Pit run / gravel — single axle loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per single axle load, flat | $50/single axle load |
| 14 | Pit run / gravel — small pickup loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per pickup load, flat | $30/pickup load |
| 15 | Clean topsoil — tandem loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. Topsoil costs three times what gravel costs to tip here. | per tandem load, flat | $150/tandem load |
| 16 | Clean topsoil — single axle loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per single axle load, flat | $50/single axle load |
| 17 | Clean topsoil — small pickup loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per pickup load, flat | $40/pickup load |
| 18 | Concrete — tandem loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. 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 |
| 19 | Concrete — single axle loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per single axle load, flat | $85/single axle load |
| 20 | Concrete — small pickup loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per pickup load, flat | $40/pickup load |
| 21 | Brush / green — tandem loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per tandem load, flat | $250/tandem load |
| 22 | Brush / green — single axle loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per single axle load, flat | $100/single axle load |
| 23 | Brush / green — small pickup loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per pickup load, flat | $40/pickup load |
| 24 | Unusable / mixed waste — tandem loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per tandem load, flat | $350/tandem load |
| 25 | Unusable / mixed waste — single axle loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per single axle load, flat | $150/single axle load |
| 26 | Unusable / mixed waste — small pickup loadPND Soil & Gravel — Langford / Victoria. | per pickup load, flat | $50/pickup load |
Source: Sooke Soil services page · Sharecost Landscape Recycling Centre rates · PND Soil & Gravel published price list · verified August 26, 2026.
Takes material, publishes no price
These sites accept material and do not publish a per-unit rate for it. Where an operator publishes a minimum charge and stops there, the minimum is shown below and labelled as a floor rather than a rate: MacNutt is the case in point, and its $31.50 fill minimum tells you nothing about what a full tandem costs. Any other number here would be invented, and an invented one costs more than a phone call.
MacNutt Enterprises — Victoria
One of very few places in Greater Victoria that takes soil at all, since Hartland will not. Mixed loads are turned away or charged a sorting fee — separate before you arrive.
250-479-6560MacNutt Enterprises — Nanaimo
MacNutt takes fill at all three yards. Only the Victoria minimums are published.
250-714-1112MacNutt Enterprises — Lake Cowichan
This yard states it accepts and recycles hardscaping debris such as concrete and asphalt. That is a concrete tip inside the Cowichan Valley that is not the CVRD, and the CVRD charges $94/tonne. Worth a price call.
250-749-4067South Island Organics
The CVRD's own fee page sends drywall and gypsum here, because the CVRD will not take it. Call ahead: special handling conditions apply.
250-733-2108GFL Environmental Victoria Transfer Station
Ellice Recycle has been absorbed into GFL — ellicerecycle.com now redirects. No rates are published on any GFL page.
250-386-4342Alpine Disposal & Recycling
Website is dead and some directories now file Alpine under GFL, so ownership may have changed. Verify it still exists independently on the call.
250-474-5145Coast Mountain Resources — Bamberton Quarry
The source page states, verbatim, that its "all-weather fill site can manage a variety of truck types including tandem and truck and transfer" and that clients "have the ability to deposit clean fill and backhaul aggregate products right from the source". That is a CLEAN FILL gate in a region where no regional district will take soil at any price. Not one number is published, so it is a phone call. The phone number below is from the company's public business listing, not from the source page.
778-356-4056Butler Concrete & Aggregate — Duncan
Takes clean structural fill here, but NOT concrete — Butler accepts clean concrete at Sooke and Keating only. butlerco.ca publishes one contact for incoming material: "Please contact Daryl Nash at 250-818-4921 for Pricing."
250-746-1080Butler Concrete & Aggregate — Sooke
butlerco.ca publishes one contact for incoming material pricing: "Please contact Daryl Nash at 250-818-4921 for Pricing."
250-818-4921Butler Concrete & Aggregate — Keating
butlerco.ca publishes one contact for incoming material pricing: "Please contact Daryl Nash at 250-818-4921 for Pricing."
250-818-4921840 Industrial Way, Saanichton (operator disputed)
DISPUTED SITE. No rate is published for this yard by anyone, and the operator at this address does not agree across sources: directory listings return Peninsula Rock Products, other records name Capital City. We are not going to state which it is. Ring the number before you load, and confirm who you are talking to.
250-652-5064What actually costs people money
CRD doubles every fee on the load. RDN charges a flat $20 to $25 instead. On a tandem into Hartland at $160/tonne, a missing tarp is a several-hundred-dollar mistake and a per-district one.
Load security and BC trucking lawDistricts price by the tonne. Most private yards price by the cubic yard. PND prices by the flat load. One RDN line prices by the cubic metre. A per-tonne number and a per-yard number are different facts, and comparing them as though they were the same one is how a quote lands 40% to 60% out.
From 1 November to 31 March the Ladysmith site opens Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday only. A Thursday load has to go to Bings Creek in Duncan, which is open every day.
The published commercial rates at the Nanaimo Landscape Recycling Centre are stated for a truck or trailer up to 8 yards. A tandem typically runs 10 to 14. The published rate may not cover your load — confirm before you dispatch.
It went $25 per tonne, then $75 in the January 2026 press coverage, then $94 on the live fee page. Quote Cowichan concrete disposal off the widely-reported $75 and you are about 20% short of the real bill; off the old $25 you are out by nearly four times.
What does Hartland charge per tonne in 2026?
Can I dump clean fill or soil at Hartland Landfill?
No. CRD Bylaw 3881 Schedule D lists Clean Soil as Prohibited Waste, so Hartland will not take it at any price. Nor will the RDN, which prohibits Clean Soil at both the Cedar landfill and the Church Road transfer station under Bylaw 1784 Schedule C. The CVRD has no soil line on its fee schedule at all, and its yard waste stream explicitly excludes rock, sod and dirt. Every soil tip we could find on southern Vancouver Island is a private site.
How much does it cost to dump concrete in the Cowichan Valley?
The CVRD charges $94 per tonne for rubble, which covers asphalt, bricks, concrete, paving stones, gravel and rock, at Bings Creek in Duncan, Peerless Road in Ladysmith and Meade Creek at Lake Cowichan. That figure is the live fee page as at 26 August 2026. It went from $25 per tonne to $75 in January 2026 and then to $94, so a load quoted off the widely reported $75 comes in about 20% short of the real bill. No ceramics or glass, and the fee schedule does not say either way whether rebarred concrete is accepted, so call 250-746-2540 before you load a slab.
What does Hartland Landfill charge per tonne in 2026?
Refuse and clean renovation and demolition waste are both $160 per tonne in 2026, up from $155 in 2025, and CRD Bylaw 3881 already legislates $165 in 2027 and $170 in 2028. Clean wood waste is $80 per tonne, treated wood and asphalt shingles $110, stumps and branches $110, yard and garden material $59, and controlled wastes including contaminated soil $214. A qualifying licensed hauler pays $145 per tonne on refuse. Most streams carry a $10 minimum.
Does the Regional District of Nanaimo take clean soil or broken concrete?
Neither. RDN Bylaw 1784 Schedule C marks Clean Soil as prohibited waste at both the Regional Landfill in Cedar and the Church Road transfer station in Parksville. It also prohibits concrete, asphalt pieces and rocks larger than 0.03 metres or heavier than 70 kilograms, and prohibits land clearing waste — stumps, tops, limbs and whole trees — outright. Small rubble can still ride in as construction and demolition waste at $160 per tonne. A broken slab cannot.
What happens if my load is not tarped?
It depends which district you are in, and the difference is large. The CRD doubles every fee on an uncovered or unsecured load, so a tandem of C&D at $160 per tonne becomes $320 per tonne. The RDN applies a flat unsecured-load surcharge instead, published as $20 in Bylaw 1784 and $25 on the live rates page. On a full tandem that is a several-hundred-dollar difference for a missing tarp.
Why is clean wood so much cheaper at Hartland than in Nanaimo?
Because the three districts price wood on completely different bases. CRD Hartland takes source-separated clean wood at $80 per tonne. The CVRD charges $165 per tonne for clean untreated lumber and $242 for painted or treated. The RDN publishes a single wood waste rate of $275 per tonne and does not split clean from treated at all, which makes it 3.4 times the CRD rate for the same clean load. If a load of clean dimensional lumber can legally travel, it is worth checking where it goes before it moves.
Method, and what is deliberately missing
- Only rates the operating authority publishes about itself.
- The unit exactly as the source states it, never converted.
- A source link and a verification date on every table.
- A distinction between prohibited by bylaw, absent from the fee schedule, and refused by the operator.
- Negotiated or account rates that are not published.
- Any figure whose unit we could not confirm.
- Estimated or interpolated prices where a site publishes nothing.
- Ronin's own tipping rate — see our rate card for what we publish.
Every rate on this page was checked against its source on August 26, 2026. Fees change, sometimes mid-year and sometimes by a lot. Confirm before you commit a truck.
Or let the truck sort it
We already know which gate takes what, and which one is open on a Thursday in February. Published hourly rates, Net 15, Cowichan Valley and Greater Victoria.