CleanBC Organics Funding Program
Grants help British Columbia local governments and Indigenous governing bodies build or expand organics processing facilities and residential food-waste collection to cut landfill emissions.
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The programme supports additional composting or anaerobic digestion capacity, and new or expanded residential curbside organics collection. Collection funding can cover kitchen and curbside bins, education materials and their initial distribution; it does not fund routine collection services.
For the closed 2025/26 round, the Province contributes up to two-thirds of eligible project costs. Eligible costs must be incurred by March 31, 2028. You must secure the balance, all ineligible costs and any overruns. Other federal or provincial grants may contribute to your share if disclosed, but combined government funding cannot exceed eligible costs and the same expenditure cannot be reimbursed twice.
The 2025/26 funding decisions have been made and applicants notified. The Province is reviewing the 2026/27 intake and will publish updates about upcoming intakes.
Eligibility
The published 2025/26 rules apply to municipalities in B.C., regional districts including Metro Vancouver and the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, and Indigenous governing bodies as defined in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
- Projects must be in B.C., add capital spending, divert additional organics from landfill for beneficial reuse, and deliver measurable additional greenhouse gas reductions. They must need this funding to proceed. They also need an appropriate council, board or governing-body resolution and must align with the regional Solid Waste Management Plan.
- Processing projects must add capacity, have a secured authorized site, and consult affected First Nations and nearby communities. They must comply with the Environmental Management Act and Organic Matter Recycling Regulation. Collection projects must collect residential organics only, expand the materials collected or service area, and send material to a processing facility operational when collection starts.
- Both streams must use at least 70% of design capacity within one year of starting operations, remain operational until at least March 31, 2037 and report emission reductions until at least that date; processing projects require annual reporting.
- The guide also requires rights to use the project site and retention of purchased equipment and assets through March 31, 2038. Your application must show committed operating and maintenance funding until at least that date and/or for at least ten years from starting operations. Indigenous applicants must show secured or forthcoming project-share funding and a plan for overruns.
- Feasibility studies, pilots, routine operations, maintenance and repairs are excluded. Transfer stations qualify only as part of a new or substantially expanded processing facility. Standalone preprocessing equipment is excluded except commercial dehydrators whose entire output goes to organics processing and produces measurable, reliable emission reductions; household appliances do not qualify.
- Costs incurred before signing the provincial funding contract are excluded, along with land purchases, vehicles, financing/legal costs, insurance, donated or in-kind goods and services, depreciation, office costs and travel. Rebatable sales tax is excluded; non-reimbursable GST/HST and PST can qualify.
- Partnerships are optional. A local government may deliver services through a statutory partnering agreement; an Indigenous governing body may use a service contract. Partnering with an Indigenous development corporation or a for-profit entity requires significant intended material benefits for the applicant throughout the funding agreement. Examples include owning the funded facilities or equipment, or using a for-profit owner/operator that provides processing services at least 30% below market rates and reserves at least 75% of funded capacity for the applicant throughout the agreement. You remain responsible and liable for delivery.
How to apply
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- Historical 2025/26 intake; awards decided and applicants notified.
Check the Ministry of Environment and Parks programme page for intake updates. The historical 2025/26 round is closed. Its applications were submitted through the Local Government Information System (LGIS); First Nations projects could alternatively email the application and supporting documents to OrganicsFund@gov.bc.ca.
That round required a separate complete application per project, with a project plan, resolution, detailed costs and timeline, ten-year waste-diversion estimates, funding evidence, site rights and consultation evidence. Processing projects also needed an engineering feasibility study of alternatives and applicable permit information. For food or biosolids facilities designed to produce at least 5,000 dry tonnes of finished compost annually, the Province must find the authorization plan reasonable. A governing resolution could follow within two weeks of the deadline or a ministry-approved date. On reasonable request, the Province could grant a written extension of up to four weeks for First Nations consultation evidence; the application deadline remained unchanged.
A local government borrowing its contribution must submit a council resolution approving the borrowing initiative. Before grant release, short-term capital borrowing requires the certified bylaw and Inspector of Municipalities approval; long-term borrowing requires the Inspector’s certificate of approval. If a partner provides the local government’s share, provide evidence that the funds are available and its written commitment.
Approved recipients sign a project-specific Shared Cost Arrangement, which sets payment and reporting conditions. The upfront grant is paid only after the Province approves the project plan and detailed cost summary and the agreement is signed. Recipients submit semi-annual statements of paid eligible expenditures and a final performance report with their final claim. The final claim is due by March 31, 2028. Reports may include quarterly progress, annual, audit and operational-phase reports through March 31, 2038.
Obtain ministry approval for changes to the project; changed scope must produce at least the approved organics diversion and emission reductions. Contracts must be publicly tendered unless the Province approves otherwise. Ministry-approved signage is required and its cost is eligible. Failure to meet the agreement, delivery or retained-service conditions, ineligible expenditure or overpayment can require repayment.