The majority of the 21 municipalities of the Vancouver metro do not offer large free items collection services, and the city of Vancouver said illegal spill costs approximately $ 2.5 million per year.
Despite fines ranging from $ 100 to $ 500 per offense or prosecution, resulting in a fine of up to $ 10,000, the city said that no monetary penalty was issued last year. However; A case is being prosecuted active.
Several times, there may be an indication of who may have been involved in the illegal spill, but not enough evidence to issue a ticket or prosecution, said the city of Vancouver in an email.
Inspectors will rather educate people involved in the appropriate way of getting rid of potential articles and fines.
In 2024, the city said that around 259 cases had led to an education.
When an abandoned bin source is identified, the city said it generally demanded that they clean it themselves and that the vast majority of people conform.
In two cases last year, the city said it had cleaned the equipment thrown and billed the responsible resident.
“Do not put a sofa on the street with a sign that says” free “that no one else would ever want because it is at the end of his life,” said ABC Vancouver Coun. Peter Meiszner. “We really ask people to act responsible.”
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The city of Vancouver does not manage a program to collect major articles for residents and said that this service is provided by a certain number of private companies that specialize in the abolition of junk food or large articles directly from houses.
Residents can also deposit certain materials to reuse and recycle free, at Vancouver Zero Waste Center.
Vancouver and 11 other municipalities in the Vancouver metro – North Vancouver City, North Vancouver District, White Rock, Maple Ridge, Port Moody, Anmore, Lions Bay, West Vancouver, Bowen Island, Belcarra and Pitt Meadows – do not have major object collection programs.
Surrey, Delta, Langley City, Langley Township, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Richmond and Burnaby offer a kind of large articles for free for residents who receive a collection of waste on the street.
However, cleaning waste is abandoned on the sidewalks and public goods in the region – including in cities that collect the articles free of charge.
In North Burnaby, the corner of Boundary Road and Albert Street has become such a home for mattresses, sofas and thrown furniture, the city has set up a mobile surveillance trailer in order to dissuade the illegal spill.
“We have captured images of illegal speakers with this camera and we follow up on them,” said Erik Schmidt, director of public works in Burnaby.
The big articles of Burnaby allows houses and duplexes to plan up to three articles by pickup while apartments, condos and row houses can plan up to six articles per complex.
Schmidt said that the Limit Route discharge site is a staging area for the collection program, and he thinks that some take advantage of it.
“Others pass and see this material placed for collection and add more and it becomes a problem,” Schmidt told Global News in an interview on Thursday.
Burnaby spends about $ 1.4 million a year on the collection of major articles, while Schmidt said the cost of eliminating abandoned waste was less than $ 400,000.
The city of New Westminster has a special pickup service on Thursday where the crews will collect large items for costs.
The minimum costs for an item are $ 50. Each additional mattress costs $ 30 while each additional box or a bulky item such as a device or a piece of furniture is $ 25.
In the end, taxpayers withdraw the garbage while the cities of the region end up treating garbage left on public and private property.
The canton of Langley said that public works staff would collect waste illegally spilled into public places such as boulevards and parks.
If the waste is thrown on a private property, the staff will bring incidents to the application of regulations, which can contact the owners to educate them, provide a cleaning notice, warn them if this is not done and, if necessary, impose fines for non-compliance.
In Vancouver, the city said that if no evidence of illegal dumping was found, the sanitation teams “would delete and eliminate the article in an appropriate manner”.
“Towards the end of the month and the first of the month, all kinds of things appear,” Neil Wyles told Global News, director general of Mount Pleasant Bia. “Lying, mattresses, other pieces of furniture – everywhere.”
Wyles has said that illegal spilling reports to the city 3-1-1 service often take days to contact-including when rejected items block access to businesses.
“If he looks at the back door of your business, it’s never fast enough,” said Wyles.
The Mount Pleasant Bia now hires a private entrepreneur to withdraw waste within 24 hours – at the cost of thousands of dollars a year.
“It has become less frustrating because we get such a good service,” said Wyles.
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