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Waste collection, diversion & disposal

The City of Vancouver's 2025 capital expenditure budget puts $40.4M into waste collection, diversion & disposal, 4.6% of the year; the largest program is “2023-2026 Gas Collection Infrastructure”.

Source: City of Vancouver open data, capital budget 2025.

$40.4M
capital expenditure budget, 2025
4.6% of the year · $21.0M new multi-year budget · number 8 of 13 services in 2025

By year, 2021–2026

$36.1M in 2021 · $40.4M in 2025 (the highest) · $40.0M in 2026

Click a year to see its amount.

Its programs, 2025

2023-2026 Gas Collection InfrastructureDisposal$4.7M2023-2026 Replacement of Vehicles & Equipment - DisposalDisposal$4.5M2023-2026 Maintenance & renewal of Transfer StationDisposal$3.8M2023-2026 Vancouver Landfill maintenance / renovations / upgradesDisposal$3.6M2023-2026 Replacement of Vehicles & Equipment - SanitationCollection & cleaning$3.1M2019-2022 replacement of Vehicles & Equipment - SanitationCollection & cleaning$1.8M2019-2022 Vancouver Landfill Hydrogeological MonitoringDisposal$985kVancouver Landfill Entrance RenovationsDisposal$882k
Show 12 more2023-2026 Technological enhancementsCollection & cleaning$750k2023-2026 New Litter & Recycling Cans/BinsCollection & cleaning$461kVancouver Landfill Building renovations/upgradesDisposal$423k2023-2026 New Vehicles & Equipment - SanitationCollection & cleaning$317k2023-2026 Electrification of Vehicles & Equipment - SanitationCollection & cleaning$288kZero Waste efforts - Food Waste prevention and diversionDiversion$208kSanitation Camera Solutions - Pilot program for Contamination DocumentationCollection & cleaning$200kDesign, Operations and Progressive Closure Plan (DOPC) - updateDisposal$134kCity Lay Down Area Clean UpDisposal$99kTechnology Improvements To Automated Cart Collection Management Application (ACCMA)Collection & cleaning$40k2023-2026 Electrification of Vehicles & Equipment - DisposalDisposal$31kZero Waste Demonstration Centre PilotDiversion$9k

In the 2023–2026 Capital Plan: $151M, by sub-category

Disposal12 programs$115M
Collection & cleaning6 programs$35.8M
Diversion2 programs$220k
About these figures

The programs listed add up to $26.2M of the $40.4M in 2025: the rest is on lines the file prints without a program name, or on a program the file puts under another service.

Each program is listed under the service the year’s budget file gives it; a program can move from one service to another between budgets.