What happens to the leaves that are set out for collection?
Leaves and other yard trimmings collected from Vancouver homes are first taken to the City’s Transfer Station and then hauled out to the Vancouver landfill in Delta for composting. For a detailed description go to composting at the landfill. Over 33,000 cubic metres of compost are produced each year at the landfill. This compost is used mainly as landscaping mulch or blended with other products to produce topsoil and is sold to residential gardeners, commercial landscapers and municipal park boards. In recent years compost from the City’s landfill has been used to reconstruct athletic fields at Hastings Park, Hillcrest Park and New Brighton Park.
