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Yard waste, branches and fall cleanup in Chilliwack: green cart limits, depot fees and burning rules

Chilliwack green cart limits, Parr Road Green Depot hours and fees, Bailey Landfill rates, invasive plant disposal and the City's open burning rules.

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What the green cart takes in Chilliwack

Every home on the City of Chilliwack curbside program gets weekly compostable collection in the green cart. The City's sorting guide puts food waste, food-soiled paper, wooden utensils and yard waste in the green cart, loose or in a paper liner. Plastic bags are not allowed, including bags marked compostable or biodegradable.

The limits come from the City's Green Cart Tips sheet and compostables page. Carts come in 120, 240 and 360 litre sizes with weight limits of 54 kg, 100 kg and 150 kg; older 80 litre carts are limited to 50 kg. Sod, rocks, soil and dirt stay out. Residents can also set out up to 10 extra paper yard waste bags or bundles of branches every week, year-round, with no sticker. Each bag is limited to 15 kg. Bundles can be no more than 0.6 metres long and 0.3 metres across, with each branch up to 15 cm in diameter. The same rules apply in Sardis, Vedder Crossing, Yarrow and Rosedale.

Parr Road Green Depot: hours, fees and what it accepts

When a fall cleanup makes more than ten bags, the Parr Road Green Depot at 45175 Parr Road is the next stop. From March 1 to November 30 it is open Monday to Sunday, 8 am to 5 pm. From December 1 to February 28 it runs Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. It closes on statutory holidays.

The depot takes grass, leaves, prunings and branches, clean construction wood, plywood, OSB and particle board, and stumps, logs and trunk sections over 360 mm. It refuses material in plastic bags, painted, stained, treated or creosoted wood, household waste, tires, drywall, plastics and metals.

When the depot says no: Bailey Landfill rates

Bailey Sanitary Landfill, 5940 Matheson Road, is open 8 am to 5 pm daily except statutory holidays. Its July 2026 table charges compostable waste at $140.00 per tonne with a $7.50 minimum. Bailey is the place for what Parr Road refuses: clean soil, rocks, sod and small concrete under 30 cm with no rebar at $37.00 per tonne, and mixed cleanup garbage such as painted fencing at $140.00 per tonne. Bailey does not take stumps or limbs over 360 mm, and a garbage load with more than 5 percent yard waste draws a 50 percent surcharge, so sort before you go. Bailey serves Chilliwack, Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs, Cultus Lake and the Chilliwack River Valley; Hope is outside the listed area.

Leaves, pumpkins, invasive plants and the 30 metre rule

Leaves are yard waste: green cart or paper bags up to the weekly limit, then Parr Road. Pumpkins are food waste and go in the green cart.

The Invasive Species Council of BC's Dispose with Care factsheet, December 2021, says knotweeds and hawkweeds survive compost temperatures, so they must never go in a backyard composter and should be bagged and labelled as invasive plants in a heavy plastic bag for landfill. Parr Road lists an invasive plant rate of $95.00 per tonne, and Bailey's schedule lists soil containing invasive plants approved for deep burial at $250.00 per tonne.

Do not dump near water. The City's bylaw prohibits composting or disposal within 30 metres of a watercourse, including ditches, with fines up to $200 per incident. Roadside dumping can be reported to the City at 604-793-2908.

Backyard burning rules in Chilliwack

Under the Open Burning Bylaw adopted in February 2021, open burning is allowed only from March 1 to April 30 and October 1 to November 30, only on agricultural and rural properties, and only with a permit for that season. Burning is allowed only when the ventilation index is good, never when wind exceeds 25 km/h, and only between 7 am and 5 pm. One pile at a time, no more than 2 metres high and 3 metres across, set back 15 metres from fences, hedges, power lines and buildings, 100 metres from neighbouring homes, 500 metres from hospitals, schools and care facilities, and 30 metres from streams and roads.

Only clean, seasoned vegetative debris may be burned, no construction material, waste or stumps, with an adult present. Fines run from $250 to $1,000 per offence. Wood-burning fire pits and free-standing appliances are not permitted anywhere in Chilliwack at any time.

Paid pickup or do it yourself, and a fall checklist

The green cart plus ten bags a week covers a normal fall for most homes at no extra cost. Your own depot runs make sense with a truck or trailer, a clean load and time in depot hours. A paid pickup earns its fee when the pile is mixed, when stumps or trunk sections over 360 mm need cutting and a heavy vehicle, when invasive plants must be bagged and kept separate. No published local pickup rate was found, so none is quoted.

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