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**As of January 1, 2025, Ridge Meadows Recycling no longer picks up curbside or apartment recycling in Maple Ridge. ***
For information about curbside or apartment recycling pickup, visit Recycle BC’s website at https://recyclebc.ca/mapleridge/
Are you a new resident?
Welcome to Maple Ridge!
- Curbside and apartment recycling pickup in Maple Ridge is provided at no cost to taxpayers by Recycle BC and their service providers. If you find yourself with overflowing bins between pickups, all the materials collected in the program are also accepted at the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot, open seven days a week and located at 10092 – 236th Street, Maple Ridge.
- Garbage and food scraps/green waste curbside pickup is NOT provided through the municipality. There are many companies that provide this service in Maple Ridge, but you must contract this service directly through the service provider.
- There is FREE recycling drop off for over 200 different items at the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot (10092 – 236th Street). We accept all electronics, small and large appliances, motor oil, cooking oil, styrofoam, textiles, batteries, light bulbs, scrap metal, and more are for recycling. Download the RMRS A to Z List of items accepted at the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot. Free public education tours of the Depot are held each summer.
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- Finally, check out our Custom Google Map of cool activities and fab places to visit in your new hometown!! We originally made this map to encourage people to get out of their house and safely explore their neighbourhood during Covid, but it has grown a LOT since and is great for new residents to see another side of Maple Ridge. Enjoy!
Ridge Meadows Recycling Society is a community-based, non-profit organization. In partnership with the City of Maple Ridge, we operate the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot, advocate zero waste, operate responsible waste reduction services and provide environmental education. We also have an Employment Skills program for people with developmental disabilities and advocate for community inclusion.
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.
*Note: The Maple Ridge Recycling Depot is currently on the Winter Hours schedule – 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.
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 City of Maple Ridge’s Spring & Fall Brush Chipping Programs, the 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 encourage people to invest in food scrap and rainwater recycling by promoting Composters, Solar Cone Food Digesters, & Rain Barrels.
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:
1. Direct Recycling Collection Services provided by Recycle BC. Maple Ridge transitioned these services in January, 2025.
Recycle BC is the non-profit organization responsible for recycling all Printed Paper & Packaging in the province since May, 2014 through the BC Provincial Recycling Regulation.
2. Metro Vancouver’s ban on Organics in all their waste facilities, including the Maple Ridge Recycling and Waste Centre, located next door to our Maple Ridge Recycling Depot. The ban, which came into effect in January 2015, states that any organic waste, including food and yard waste, must be separated from regular garbage.
3. Maple Ridge Repair Cafes, monthly events where volunteers will fix your broken stuff for free. Ridge Meadows Recycling Society launched this initiative in March, 2018. We are now in our 8th year and listed among the top Repair Cafes in the world on Repair Monitor!
4. Canada’s ban on single use plastic items which 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
You can also read about our Single Use Plastic Item Reduction Strategies & our Position Statement which were adopted in 2018.
In January, 2025, the City of Maple Ridge and Ridge Meadows Recycling Society transitioned curbside and apartment recycling collection services in Maple Ridge to direct services provided by Recycle BC, the non-profit organization responsible for printed paper and packaging recycling in BC. They have contracted the curbside collection services to 
Maple Ridge Recycling Depot:
Ridge Meadows Recycling Society is responsible for all services at the Maple Ridge Recycling Depot, located at 10092 – 236th Street.
Contact 604-463-5545 or