Is the city investing in waste diversion and recycling?
Vancouver promised aggressive waste diversion targets. Here's how much capital money is going into waste collection, diversion, and disposal infrastructure.
On track
Capital spending on waste collection, diversion & disposal has gone up — $40M planned for 2025 versus $32M in 2023.
1The story
What we're trackingAn ABC Majority will support the City of Vancouver's 2040 Zero Waste Plan and accelerate it to 2035.— ABC Vancouver's 2022 campaign platform
In plain terms: This covers landfill expansion, composting facilities, recycling processing plants, and waste vehicle fleet upgrades. The city's goal is to divert 90% of waste from landfill by 2040.
We pulled every line item from the City of Vancouver's multi-year capital budget tagged 'Waste collection, diversion & disposal' and summed the planned expenditures by budget year. This is the city's own forward-looking plan, not actual spend. The dataset covers 2023–2026; big projects land in single years, so the series is lumpy. Source: City of Vancouver open data.
City of Vancouver open data — Capital Budget (Waste collection, diversion & disposal) · as of 2026-10-21 · Vancouver Promise Tracker — an independent look at whether local leaders deliver on their word.