Victoria indicatorsGarbage to the landfill per person
330 kg per person a year
CRD target: 250 kg or less per person (adopted by the CRD Board in its Solid Waste Management Plan). Targets and comparisons
330 kg per person in 2025, against the CRD’s target of 250 kg or less. Down 2.4% from 2024 (338 kg).
Source: Capital Regional District. We read it on Nov 11, 2026.
Over time
2025 Kg per person a year, by year
- 330 kg
CRD target: 250 kg
B.C. target: 350 kg (applies to all of B.C.)
M municipal election: Oct 15, 2022
Targets and comparisons
Adopted target
Behind target. 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: 250 kg per person, set by the Capital Regional District Board. Solid Waste Management Plan progress report 2025.
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.
Source: Solid Waste Management Plan progress report 2025, Capital Regional District, 2025, page 7. Area: Capital Region. Updated: Yearly. Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
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.
Source: Zero waste and the circular economy (provincial disposal target), Province of B.C., page updated October 6, 2022. Area: British Columbia. Updated: Not on a schedule. Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 330 kg |
| 2024 | 338 kg |
| 2023 | 382 kg |
| 2022 | 405 kg |
| 2021 | 400 kg |
Who decides
Capital Regional District Board. Runs the regional solid waste disposal service and must keep a solid waste plan approved by the Province. CRD Bylaw No. 1903, Solid Waste Disposal Local Service Establishment Bylaw
Show the 1 other body and the laws
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Regional District Board | Runs the regional solid waste disposal service and must keep a solid waste plan approved by the Province. | CRD Bylaw No. 1903, Solid Waste Disposal Local Service Establishment Bylaw Environmental Management Act, s. 24 |
| Municipal councils of Greater Victoria (13) | Each council decides its own services, such as garbage collection. | Community Charter, s. 8 |
Councils: last general local election October 17, 2026; next on October 19, 2030, the third Saturday of October set by the Local Government Act, s. 52.
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- Covers the whole Capital Region, not only the City of Victoria.
One more limit
- Material diverted to recycling or beneficial use is not counted as disposal.
Not measured yet in environment: tree canopy. See all 17 gaps
In plain words
Kilograms of garbage per resident sent to the Hartland landfill in the year, next to the target in the region’s adopted solid waste plan.
How we decide “Behind target”
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.
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.
Target: Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report.
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. Less garbage means the landfill lasts longer and fewer resources are wasted.
- Covers the whole Capital Region, not only the City of Victoria.
- Material diverted to recycling or beneficial use is not counted as disposal.
Which places
Area: Capital Region
The Capital Regional District: 13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas, including the Southern Gulf Islands and Salt Spring Island.
Included
- The 13 municipalities: Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Highlands, Metchosin, Sooke, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Sidney
- The 3 electoral areas: Juan de Fuca (including East Sooke, Jordan River and Port Renfrew), Salt Spring Island, and the Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna)
- First Nations reserve lands within the region
Not included
- Communities north of the Malahat, such as the Cowichan Valley, Duncan and Nanaimo
Official definition
- Capital Regional District: About the CRD
- Statistics Canada: Capital census division (5917), 2021 list of areas
How the agency describes it: Capital Regional District (whole region).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Annually (CRD progress report); latest release May 13, 2026 (date of the agency’s file)
- Retrieved
- Nov 11, 2026, 1:23 AM B.C. time
Source: Capital Regional District, Solid Waste Management Plan progress report. Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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