The City of Albany manages waste activities throughout the municipality inconjuction with Transpacific Cleanway and Vancouver Waste Services. 

The City has a local and Regional Waste Strategy that has an established five year plan for waste management improvements that aim to improve recycling activities and ensure best practice landfill operations.

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The City has rural waste transfer stations at the following sites, and each has recycling facilities available:

• Kronkup Transfer Station
• Redmond Transfer Station
• Manypeaks Transfer Station
• Cheynes Beach Transfer Station
• Wellstead Transfer Station.

As well, rural ratepayers are able to use Hanrahan and Baker’s Junction landfill sites.

Rural transfer stations provide a domestic waste service for rural residents.  They do not take farm or commercial waste.  As with urban businesses, that waste must be disposed of at Hanrahan or Baker’s Junction landfill sites.

Prior to the introduction of the Domestic Rural Waste Service Pass, the record and control of the usage of these sites was very difficult as there was no accurate form of recording tonnage deposited and removed from each facility. This information is important for reporting, control, budgeting and management purposes. The previous recording system was by means of a written record of vehicle registration numbers, estimated tonnages, and through the wave of a friendly hand to familiar local residents.

It was therefore approved by Council, at the April 2011 Council Meeting, to introduce a Domestic Rural Waste Service Pass, as from July 2011/2012, for Domestic Rural ratepayers. This pass is to provide for each rural ratepayer to use the services of the transfer station for their domestic waste, but in a controlled manner, with the usage recorded in an appropriate manner.  Unauthorised use by residents of adjoining shires and from the urban area will be prevented through the use of the Pass system.

In practice, the Pass is a clip card, providing for 52 tokens.  This then will provide for each rural household to access the transfer stations on a weekly basis on average, for the deposit of the equivalent of a 140 litre mobile garage bin (MGB).

This quantity is in addition to any recycled material placed in the recycle bins. This Pass is a wallet sized, waterproof card which will be issued to rural waste ratepayers in June each year, prior to the rates assessments going out in July. When a ratepayer uses the Pass, the relevant token amounts are punched by the waste site attendant. 

Each of the 52 tokens on the Pass will allow entry into any of the Council’s transfer stations and Hanrahan and Baker’s Junction landfill sites. The tokens are valid for a three month period, to discourage the accumulation of rubbish in excess of the allowable amount for that period. If there is an excess on any occasion, extra tokens will be punched, thus lessening the quantity that can be dropped off in subsequent periods. Once all the tokens on the Pass have been used, charges will then start to apply. Once charges apply, these residents will no longer be able to utilise the transfer stations, as they do not collect money at these sites, but instead will need to go to Hanrahan or Baker’s Junction Landfill Sites, where charging facilities are available. 

The Domestic Rural Waste Service Pass will remain linked to the relevant rural property. If new owners take possession of a property, the Pass is to be handed over to them as part of the settlement process. If Passes are lost, no replacement Passes are to be issued, and the ratepayer will have to make use of the facilities at Hanrahan Rd or Baker’s Junction, and make payment for the quantities deposited.