Policies that came into effect this year have averted hundreds of tonnes of clean wood and other products from going to waste at Hartland landfill. The Capital Regional District banned clean wood from going into the landfill at the start of the year and a prohibition on treated wood and asphalt shingles has been in effect since July. An update on those new policies shows that in the first six months of the year, 538 tonnes of clean wood was diverted from the landfill – either to be recycled or to be used by waste-to-energy processors to displace fossil fuels. Clean wood is classified as material such as pallets and lumber off-cuts that aren’t treated, stained or painted. …As of 2022, wood and wood products accounted for about one fifth of everything that gets sent to the landfill, making it the region’s largest waste material stream.