In 1989, Cache Creek became a landfill site for garbage shipped by truck from the Lower Mainland.
It closed in 2016 and was replaced by the adjacent Campbell Hill landfill in 2019, accepting solid waste from the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.
[1] On January 6, 2010, the Ministry of Environment approved a 42-hectare extension of the existing Cache Creek landfill, providing an additional 12.6 million tonnes of disposal capacity.
This project was expected to have a lifespan of 25 years or more, depending on increasing rates of material recovery through composting and recycling.
Metro Vancouver stopped sending waste to the landfill in 2016 after the expiry of their contingency disposal contract with Cache Creek.