By Cheryl Jahn

Tipping fee increases coming

Nov 23, 2022 | 2:38 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The Regional District of Fraser Fort George operates the Foothills landfill, the destination for all the waste generated by city residents. But it is also the destination for all the waste that is generated across the region. And one of the first orders of business for the new Regional District Board was to increase the fees for garbage disposal, otherwise called tipping fees, by two dollars per tonne to 96 dollars.

“So the overall tipping fees are raised from $94 a metric ton to $96 a metric ton. So it doesn’t matter where you’re living in the city of Prince George, out in our rural areas,” explains Laura Zapotichny, the Manager of Waste Diversion. “That tipping fee base rate will be applied to waste that comes to the Foothills landfill. As for the average resident, they’re not going to see that increase per say on their their tax bill and things like that, because our solid waste management program is funded through requisition taxes and through user fees.”

The increases help offset things like rising costs for things like the transportation costs to bring the wate from the region’s to the Foothills Landfill.

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“The bins are getting old. We need to replace those on an ongoing basis,” explains Lara Beckett, Chair of the Board for the Regional District. “Just upgrades to the sites themselves. Cost of gas, you know all of that kind of thing. The contracts that we have for the haulers that take those bins from the rural areas to Foothills, just all those expenses are creeping up. The Regional District’s Solid Waste Management Financial Plan also allows for incremental tipping fee increases.

“So our goal in the five-year financial plan that was presented in 2021 was to build stability into the budget and also ensure that we can fund the program. So we’re doing environmental protection or meeting regulatory obligations of managing these landfills and transfer stations, and that we can put new programs and things like that in place and ensure that we’re operating our sites in a safe manner.”

There are what are called transfer stations within city limits. The Quinn Street Transfer station is one of them. However, the fee increase doesn’t affect those operations.

“So small load shipping fees have not increased. So if you bring us 100 kilograms or less, it’s $6. If you use our Vanway transfer station with small loads of household waste, it’s still $6. So that base rate still remains the same. And this is part of our larger financial five year plan..”

The increased fees will kick in on January 1st,.