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Ridge Meadows Recycling Society is a community-based, non-profit organization, advocating zero waste, operating responsible waste reduction services and providing environmental education. We employ people with developmental disabilities assisting their integration into the community.
Vision: A waste free, socially responsible community
Our offices are located at the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot – 10092 – 236th Street, Maple Ridge, BC, just off River Road in the Albion Industrial Park. Download the RMRS A to Z List for a list of items we accept at the Recycling Depot.
Are you a new resident?
Welcome to Maple Ridge! First, click here to find out your recycling pickup day. Next, sign up for our monthly newsletter to learn all about recycling and environmental programs in Maple Ridge. Then, give us a call at 604-463-5545 to learn all about our program & visit the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot (10092 – 236th Street) to pick up your new recycling boxes & bags! Bonus – got questions about garbage, organics, or green waste pickup in Maple Ridge? Finally, check out our Custom Google Map of cool activities and fab places to visit in your new hometown!!
Please use our recycling boxes & bags!
*Note: We are currently on our Winter Hours schedule at the Depot – open at 8:00am and closing at 5:00pm Monday to Saturday. Sundays and holidays we are open from 9:00am – 5:00pm. Summer Hours (closing an hour later at 6pm Mon-Sat) begin on April 1, 2025.
REMINDER: There is NO CURBSIDE RECYCLING PICKUP on Statutory or Designated Holidays. Download the 2024 RMRS Stat Holiday Blue Box Pickup Schedule.
In addition to picking up recyclables curbside and at apartments, we also run the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot which accepts over 200 different items. The Maple Ridge Recycling Depot is OPEN on all stat holidays except Christmas Day & New Year’s Day.
Ridge Meadows Recycling Society also administers the Spring & Fall Brush Chipping Programs, Maple Ridge’s Wildsafe BC program, and the Low-Flow Toilet Tax Credit program. We are the lead coordinator on Celebrate Earth Day in Maple Ridge (April) and Maple Ridge Repair Cafes and each Spring we sell Composters, Solar Cone Food Digesters, & Rain Barrels.
Wondering how to sort your recyclables? Download the 2024 RMRS Curbside Sort Flyer or the 2024 RMRS Apartment Sort Poster
Need new recycling boxes or bags? Visit the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot.
Lots has changed since we began recycling in Maple Ridge in 1972 – over 50 years ago!
And the changes continue with new programs…
Learn more about:
Maple Ridge’s Transition to Direct Recycling Collection Services from Recycle BC starting in January, 2025.
The BC Provincial Recycling Regulation for Printed Paper & Packaging and Recycle BC, the organization that has run this provincial recycling program since May, 2014.
Metro Vancouver’s ban on Organics (food waste, lawn clippings, etc.) in their waste facilities, which came into effect in January, 2015.
Maple Ridge Repair Cafes, where volunteers will fix your broken stuff for free, launched in March, 2018 – now in our 7th year and listed among the top Repair Cafes in the world on Repair Monitor!
Canada’s ban on 6 single use plastic items started in 2023:
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-delivers-on-commitment-to-ban-harmful-single-use-plastics.html
Single Use Plastic Item Reduction Strategies & our Position Statement – adopted in 2018
