By the numbers: Metro Vancouver's recycling and trash in 2017

Metro Vancouver staff recently provided the zero waste committee with an update on how the region fared in its waste-diversion efforts in 2017.
63 PER CENT
Amount of the region’s waste diverted from landfill in 2017.
Metro Vancouver’s current Integrated Solid Waste and Resource Management Plan has an ambitious goal of 80 per cent waste diversion by 2020. In 2017, the region diverted 63 per cent of all municipal solid waste generated (or, 2.2 million tonnes), slightly up from 62 per c