Glenmore Landfill Guide: Hours, Fees and What’s Free in Kelowna

Glenmore Landfill is Kelowna’s main waste disposal site, where everything from a garage cleanout to a renovation load ends up, and most people only go once or twice a year — so the rules catch them out. Here are the hours, the current tipping fees, where each kind of junk goes (some of it free), what the scale house turns away, and the point where paying a hauler once beats three dump runs. Hours and fees are taken from the City of Kelowna’s Glenmore Landfill pages as of October 2026.

Glenmore Landfill hours and location

• Address: 2720 John Hindle Drive, Kelowna (the City lists the site as 2710–2720 John Hindle Drive).
• Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., seven days a week. Statutory holidays keep the same hours, except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, when the landfill is closed.
• Phone: 250-469-8880.
• Payment: debit, Visa or Mastercard. There’s no GST on landfill fees.
• Before you go: the City runs a live camera of the scale-house line-up, so you can check the wait first.

Glenmore only takes waste from inside the Regional District of Central Okanagan — Peachland to Lake Country, including the rural electoral areas — plus Big White. Its provincial operating certificate doesn’t allow waste from anywhere else, so a load from Penticton, Summerland or Vernon can’t be accepted.

Glenmore Landfill tipping fees

Every load is weighed at the scale house and billed by weight. These are the City’s published rates, in effect since January 1, 2022 under Solid Waste Management Bylaw No. 10106:

Two rules cost people the most. A mixed load is charged at the rate of the most expensive material in it, plus a $50-per-tonne sorting fee. And an uncovered or unsecured load can be fined up to $150. Sort before you load, and bring a tarp and straps. Rates change by bylaw, so confirm them on the City’s accepted products & tipping fees page before a big run.

Where each kind of junk goes

A lot of what ends up in a dump run doesn’t belong in the garbage pile, and some of it costs nothing to drop off:

• Fridges, freezers, stoves, washers and dryers: free at Glenmore’s appliance area. Fridges and freezers go to a separate refrigerated drop so the refrigerant can be removed.
• Passenger tires: free at Glenmore without rims, $20 each with rims. Local tire shops often take them too, or we can haul them with the rest of your load (see tire removal).
• Scrap metal: $10 per tonne at Glenmore when it’s separated. Anything that’s more than 70% metal has to come out of the garbage.
• Yard waste and clean wood: sorted out of the load, they cost a fraction of the garbage rate (see the table above). For a bigger cleanup, see yard waste removal.
• Cardboard, paper, plastic containers, cans and glass: Glenmore has a recycling area for them, and Recycle BC depots around Kelowna, West Kelowna and Lake Country take packaging and paper, including foam packaging and flexible plastics, at no charge.
• Propane bottles, car batteries, clothing and small working appliances: Glenmore has separate drop-off spots for these, so keep them out of the garbage.
• Mattresses: $18 each at Glenmore. Our mattress disposal guide for Kelowna covers the other options.
• Paint, solvents, pesticides and other household chemicals: never in the garbage. Kelowna Recycling (Battery Doctors) at 1972 Windsor Road runs a year-round household hazardous waste depot (Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–3 p.m.; limits and fees may apply), and Product Care lists drop-off depots for the products it covers. On a junk removal job, we take paint and household chemicals in their original labelled containers and drop them at the right depot (see paint disposal).
• Electronics: TVs, computers, phones and other electronics go to a Return-It Electronics depot — the recycling fee was paid when you bought them. Take the batteries out first.
• Household batteries: Kelowna Recycling, or any Recycle Your Batteries drop-off.
• Usable furniture and household goods: donate them (see below).

Not sure where something goes? The Regional District of Central Okanagan’s waste reduction line, 250-469-6250, can point you to the right depot.

What Glenmore won’t accept

Save yourself a wasted trip — these get turned away at the scale house:

• Waste from outside the Central Okanagan — only loads from Peachland to Lake Country (including the rural areas) and Big White.
• Household hazardous waste — paint, solvents and pesticides go to a hazardous-waste depot instead (above).
• Tires over 22.5 inches and heavy-duty tires.
• Anything over 2 metres (about 6 feet) in any direction, apart from a few exceptions such as couches, box springs and hot tubs up to six-person size. RVs and motorhomes aren’t accepted at all.
• Contaminated soil without a permit, and asbestos without an approved application.
• Drywall or shingles mixed into garbage — both are mandatory recyclables and draw surcharges when they aren’t separated.

Can you dump junk for free in Kelowna?

Not general garbage — every garbage load that crosses Glenmore’s scale is weighed and charged. But plenty of junk has a free route: major appliances and rim-free passenger tires at Glenmore, packaging and paper at Recycle BC depots, electronics through Return-It, and anything usable through donation.

Donation routes: free pickup for anything usable

The cheapest disposal is the item leaving under someone else’s power. Kelowna’s thrift stores and the Habitat for Humanity ReStore accept working furniture, appliances, tools and building materials, and several offer pickups for larger donations. Buy-nothing and marketplace groups clear usable items fast — a decent couch posted free in Rutland or Lower Mission rarely lasts a day.

Two honest caveats: donation only works for things in genuinely good condition (charities pay disposal fees on broken donations), and pickups run on the charity’s schedule, not yours. If a move-out date is the problem, a furniture removal crew can work around it — and we donate or recycle what’s still usable rather than landfilling it.

When a junk removal service beats three dump runs

DIY disposal is the right call when you own a truck, the load is light, and everything sorts cleanly into free or cheap categories. It stops making sense fast when any of these are true:

• No truck. A weekend pickup rental plus fuel plus tipping fees often lands within range of a professional flat rate — before you count your Saturday.
• Heavy or awkward items. A hide-a-bed down a staircase or a fridge out of a Mission basement is a two-person job with real injury risk — appliance removal crews do it daily with dollies and straps.
• Mixed loads. Garbage, metal, e-waste and donations done right means three or four separate stops. A crew sorts on the spot and routes each stream properly.
• Volume. A full garage cleanout or estate cleanout can be six-plus truck trips — a weekend of driving and lifting versus a couple of hours watching someone else load.

Our junk removal pricing is flat-rate by how much of the trailer your load fills, and it includes the loading, the hauling and the disposal fees:

• A few small items: $145
• Quarter trailer: $195
• Half trailer: $245
• Three-quarter trailer: $320
• Full trailer: $395
• Each extra trailer load the same day: +$200 (two full loads: $595)

Heavy or oversized items like concrete, soil or large appliances may adjust the price on arrival. To be clear about how it works: your quote is an estimate, and the final price is approved on arrival once we confirm the actual volume and scope — no surprises before we start. If the junk pile is part of a bigger move-out, our guide to what movers cost in Kelowna covers that side of the budget too.

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