Thorsen Creek Waste and Recycling Centre (TCWRC)
Hours of Operation
Wednesday 8:30am – 5:30pm
Saturday 8:30am – 5:30pm
Contact: 250-799-5291 Tues. – Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for general information or email info@ccrd.ca
For information about our recycling program click here.
TCWRC is located at the end of Thorsen Creek Road, approximately 6 km east of Bella Coola. The TCWRC offers a wide range of free recycling services, as well as a transfer station for household garbage, construction and demolition debris, yard waste, appliances and metals. Thorsen Creek Landfill is located adjacent to the transfer station and can be accessed by commercial haulers. A transfer station attendant is on-site during hours of operation and can help answer questions and direct the sorting of waste. All customers are to report to the Attendant for any non-household garbage.
Solid Waste and Recycling
In British Columbia, regional districts develop solid waste management plans under the provincial Environmental Management Act. These plans are long term visions of how each regional district would like to manage its solid wastes in accordance with the pollution prevention hierarchy. This plan will be renewed on a 10-year cycle to ensure that it reflects the current needs of the Central Coast Regional District (CCRD) as well as current market conditions, technologies and regulations.
The CCRD submitted their first solid waste management plan to the Province for approval in 1996. This plan was not approved due to concerns regarding plan financing. Consequently the CRRD revisited the planning process and prepared a revised plan which the Province approved in2004. The history of the planning process is discussed further in section 2.2.
This draft document represents an update of the CCRD’s solid waste management plan and once approved by the Province (along with any approval conditions), becomes a regulatory document for solid waste management and serves to guide the solid waste management related activities and policy development in the CCRD. In conjunction with regulations and operational certificates that may apply, this plan regulates the operation of sites and facilities that make up the region’s waste management system (seeSection2.3).
The CCRD Board of Directors approved the Solid Waste Management Plan in open public meeting on March 9, 2017. It has been submitted to the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy for review and finalization.