Langley City's hazardous waste day is back after four years
Langley City's free household hazardous waste drop-off at City Park on Saturday, Nov 7, was its first since the joint City-Township event ended in 2022, and cars were lined up before it opened.
Cars were queued in the City Park lot at 4949 207 Street before 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov 7, trunks full of old paint, spent batteries and propane bottles. Langley City was running a household hazardous waste drop-off on its own for the first time, and the first of any kind for City residents since 2022.
“It’s been a steady stream,” Rachel Ollenberger, the City’s manager of engineering services, told the Langley Advance Times as she checked IDs at the entrance. Contractor Emterra’s crew sorted what came in.
Why it went away
For years the City and Township ran one shared drop-off. That ended after 2022. The Township now runs its own multi-day Household Hazardous Waste Plus event in the fall (this year at the George Preston Recreation Centre), and it’s for Township residents only, so people in Langley City had no equivalent until this one.
The City hasn’t said whether Saturday’s drop-off will become a yearly thing. If it does, we’ll put the date on the events calendar as soon as it’s posted.
What it took, and what it didn’t
The City took batteries, cleaners and other household chemicals, paint and thinner, motor oil, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, electronics and cables, small appliances, soft plastics and Styrofoam, and empty propane tanks. The limit was a pickup or small trailer load per household, with proof of a Langley City address.
It turned away sharps and other biohazards, built-in appliances like over-the-range microwaves, fireworks, flares and ammunition, and tires.
Missed it?
Most of the same things have a home the rest of the year:
- Metro Vancouver’s Langley Recycling and Waste Centre, 1070 272 Street, takes household paint free, along with garbage and recycling. You unload by hand, and the centre’s page has lineup cameras.
- Paint, light bulbs and smoke alarms go back free to Product Care drop-offs. Its locator lists the Langley sites, which include several bottle depots.
- Anything else odd: search the Recycling Council of BC’s Recyclepedia, or call its hotline at 604-732-9253.
Never pour any of it down a drain or put it in the garbage cart. Our garbage and recycling schedules page has the regular pickup days for both the City and the Township.