The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) is pleased to announce that the RDN Curbside Organics Program will be accepting yard and garden material as of March 1, 2023. Through our newly expanded curbside collection program, residents in Electoral Areas A, B, C, E, F, G, and H, District of Lantzville, City of Parksville and Town of Qualicum Beach can top up their organics cart with leaves, grass trimmings and light yard trimmings such as twigs and small branches. This service expansion provides residents with a convenient, cost-effective way to dispose of their yard and garden material while helping the RDN to increase organic material diversion and improve air quality through reduced greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Lower GHGs will be achieved through a decrease in backyard burning and fewer visits to the Church Road Transfer Station and Regional Landfill by residents and haulers to dispose of organic yard material.
