{
  "id": "waste-per-capita",
  "category": "Environment",
  "title": "Garbage sent to the regional landfill per person",
  "geography": "Capital Regional District (whole region)",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Households and businesses",
    "Regional (CRD solid waste plan)",
    "Municipal (collection)"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many kilograms of garbage per resident went to the Hartland landfill in the year?",
  "value": 330,
  "display_value": "330",
  "unit": "kg per person (CRD target 250 kg)",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025",
  "period_start": "2025-01-01",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "2024",
    "previous_value": 338,
    "change_percent": -2.4
  },
  "since_text": "Was 338 kg in 2024 and 400 kg in 2021. CRD target: 250 kg or less",
  "trend": "roughly_flat",
  "trend_basis": "330 kg per person in 2025, compared with 338 kg in 2024 and 400 kg in 2021. The CRD's adopted solid waste plan sets a target of 250 kg or less by the end of the plan's tenth year.",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "A lower number means less garbage per person went to the landfill. The target is the CRD's own adopted target.",
  "caveats": [
    "Covers the whole Capital Region, not only the City of Victoria.",
    "Material diverted to recycling or beneficial use is not counted as disposal."
  ],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2021",
      "value": 400
    },
    {
      "period": "2022",
      "value": 405
    },
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 382
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 338
    },
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 330
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Annually (CRD progress report)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
    "download_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
    "publisher_page": "https://www.crd.ca/",
    "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0#page=8",
    "page": 8,
    "locator": "CRD Solid Waste Management Plan progress report 2025, page 8, per capita disposal table",
    "reads": "“per capita disposal rate reported in 2025 is 330 kg per capita”; “target is 250 kg or less”"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "per capita disposal rate reported in 2025 is 330 kg per capita",
    "per capita disposal rate target is 250 kg or less",
    "2021 432,062 173,899 -1,013 172,886 400",
    "2022 439,950 183,397 -5,107 178,290 405",
    "2023 455,092 179,075 -5,100 173,975 382",
    "2024 464,934 168,055 -10,866 157,189 338",
    "2025 455,283 152,447 -2,006 150,441 330"
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-05-13",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-11T08:23:37Z",
  "attribution": "Source: Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 2.4% of the earlier value, below the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 338,
      "text": "vs 2024: -2.4%"
    },
    "five_year": {
      "period": "2021",
      "years": 4,
      "value": 400,
      "comparable": true,
      "text": "vs 2021: −17.5%"
    }
  },
  "data_published_basis": "file dated",
  "direction": {
    "type": "target",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "behind",
    "label": "Behind target",
    "target": 250,
    "ratio": 1.32,
    "vs": "2024",
    "cur": "Calendar year 2025",
    "one_year": "−8 kg",
    "why": "330 kg per person against the CRD’s target of 250 kg or less (32% above it). At or under the target reads Target met; over it reads Behind target. The CRD’s plan sets the target for the end of the plan’s tenth year; no year-by-year path is published, so the label compares the latest year with the target itself.",
    "target_source": [
      "Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report",
      "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0"
    ],
    "five": {
      "period": "2021",
      "comparable": true,
      "rel": -17.5,
      "years": 4,
      "longest": true,
      "text": "−17.5%"
    }
  },
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "outcome",
  "better_measure": null,
  "reference_lines": [
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      "key": "crd250",
      "style": "target",
      "label": "CRD target: 250 kg or less per person (adopted by the CRD Board in its Solid Waste Management Plan)",
      "short": "CRD target: 250 kg",
      "area": "Capital Region",
      "source": "Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report 2025 (2025, page 7)",
      "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
      "applies": "By the end of the plan’s tenth year; no year is drawn",
      "value": 250,
      "end": "CRD target: 250 kg"
    },
    {
      "key": "bc350",
      "style": "higher",
      "label": "Provincial target: 350 kg per person (target applies to all of B.C.)",
      "short": "B.C. target: 350 kg (applies to all of B.C.)",
      "area": "British Columbia",
      "source": "Province of B.C., Zero waste and the circular economy (provincial disposal target) (page updated October 6, 2022)",
      "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/waste-management/zero-waste",
      "applies": "No end date on the page",
      "value": 350,
      "end": "B.C. target: 350 kg"
    }
  ],
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 1,
    "rung_name": "Adopted target",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "target",
        "label": "Adopted target",
        "text": "Adopted target: the Capital Regional District’s 2025 Solid Waste Management Plan progress report says the region’s disposal target is 250 kg or less per person by the end of the tenth year of the plan (page 7). The same report describes the plan as reducing waste per person in the region by more than one third by 2031 (page 4). The chart draws the 250 kg line without a calendar year.",
        "area": "Capital Region",
        "source": {
          "title": "Solid Waste Management Plan progress report 2025",
          "publisher": "Capital Regional District",
          "date": "2025",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
          "terms": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
          "refresh": "Yearly",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "crd_swmp",
          "page": 7
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      },
      {
        "kind": "higher",
        "label": "Higher government target or benchmark",
        "text": "Higher government target: the Province has set a disposal target of 350 kg per person. Target applies to all of B.C., so it is drawn in grey and labelled.",
        "area": "British Columbia",
        "source": {
          "title": "Zero waste and the circular economy (provincial disposal target)",
          "publisher": "Province of B.C.",
          "date": "page updated October 6, 2022",
          "url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/waste-management/zero-waste",
          "terms": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
          "refresh": "Not on a schedule",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "bc_zero_waste"
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [
      "CRD target: 250 kg or less per person (adopted by the CRD Board in its Solid Waste Management Plan)",
      "Provincial target: 350 kg per person (target applies to all of B.C.)"
    ],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
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      "label": "CRD target: 250 kg or less per person (adopted by the CRD Board in its Solid Waste Management Plan)",
      "short": "CRD target: 250 kg",
      "unit": "kg per person",
      "set_by": "CRD",
      "instrument": "plan",
      "document": "crd_swmp",
      "page": 7,
      "area": "Capital Region",
      "fit": "full",
      "same_area": true,
      "polarity": "lower_is_better",
      "chart": null,
      "value": 250,
      "applies_from": null,
      "applies_to": null,
      "note": "By the end of the plan’s tenth year; no year is drawn",
      "document_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-solid-waste-management-plan-progress-reportpdf-0",
      "applies_here": true,
      "same_measure": true
    },
    {
      "rung": 2,
      "kind": "target",
      "label": "Provincial target: 350 kg per person (target applies to all of B.C.)",
      "short": "B.C. target: 350 kg",
      "unit": "kg per person",
      "set_by": "BC",
      "instrument": "plan",
      "document": "bc_zero_waste",
      "page": null,
      "area": "British Columbia",
      "fit": "full",
      "same_area": false,
      "polarity": "lower_is_better",
      "chart": null,
      "value": 350,
      "applies_from": null,
      "applies_to": null,
      "note": "No end date on the page",
      "document_url": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/waste-management/zero-waste",
      "applies_here": false,
      "same_measure": true
    }
  ],
  "highest_rung": 1,
  "target_status": {
    "method": "target_itself",
    "label": "Behind target",
    "key": "behind",
    "value": 330,
    "target": 250,
    "calculated_here": false,
    "text": "330 kg per person against the CRD’s target of 250 kg or less (32% above it). At or under the target reads Target met; over it reads Behind target. The CRD’s plan sets the target for the end of the plan’s tenth year; no year-by-year path is published, so the label compares the latest year with the target itself."
  },
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "CRD",
      "name": "Capital Regional District Board",
      "decides": "Runs the regional solid waste disposal service and must keep a solid waste plan approved by the Province.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "crd1903",
          "label": "CRD Bylaw No. 1903, Solid Waste Disposal Local Service Establishment Bylaw",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/1903-solid-waste-disposal-local-service-establishment-bylaw-no-1-1991b"
        },
        {
          "key": "ema24",
          "label": "Environmental Management Act, s. 24",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03053_03#section24"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "MUN",
      "name": "Municipal councils of Greater Victoria (13)",
      "decides": "Each council decides its own services, such as garbage collection.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "cc8",
          "label": "Community Charter, s. 8",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/03026_02#section8"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Capital Regional District Board",
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    "key": "behind",
    "label": "Behind target"
  },
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    "text": "Target 250 · 80 kg over",
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    "gap": "80 kg over",
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    "applies_here": true,
    "note": null
  }
}