{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003139",
 "municipality": "East Hants",
 "status_type": "District municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "waste_collection",
 "label": "Garbage & recycling",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://www.easthants.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Solid Waste Resource Collection and Disposal Bylaw IO-400 (amended by IO-400-1)",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2019-04-24",
   "document_url": "https://www.easthants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Bylaw-IO-400-1-SOLID-WASTE-RESOURCE-COLLECTION-AND-DISPOSAL-BYLAW-FINAL-approved-April-24-19.pdf",
   "summary": "Municipality of East Hants bylaw governing solid waste and recyclable collection and disposal. Amendment IO-400-1 passed by Council April 24, 2019.",
   "capture_sha256": "a130f316cb2143ec56ff9056dea6d7f7c1566796a578c9eead258fd02f4774f4",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/a130f316cb2143ec56ff9056dea6d7f7c1566796a578c9eead258fd02f4774f4.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "Biweekly solid waste; recyclables and organics collected on alternating biweekly schedule; collection commences at 7:00 a.m.",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Single-family: maximum 5 regulation containers solid waste, 8 recyclables bags/bundles, 1 organics cart per collection day per unit",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Non-collectible includes: highly combustible/explosive materials, pathogenic/biomedical waste, trade waste, carcasses (except food waste), hazardous waste, auto bodies, septic pumpings, radioactive materials, soil/rock/stumps, construction/demolition waste, mixed waste, landfill-banned materials"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "s. 10.1(a)(b)(c)",
    "sorting_required": "s. 4.1(i)",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "s. 6.1(a)(i)",
    "accepted_or_banned": "s. 2(gg)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/east-hants/garbage-recycling/text-a130f316cb21/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/east-hants/garbage-recycling/"
}