Garbage & recycling — East Hants, Nova Scotia

When is garbage and recycling collected? Are there bag limits or sorting rules?

District municipality of East Hants has 1 adopted bylaw on file, verified against the original document on 2026-06-05.

Solid Waste Resource Collection and Disposal Bylaw IO-400 (amended by IO-400-1) adopted bylaw
collection schedule Biweekly solid waste; recyclables and organics collected on alternating biweekly schedule; collection commences at 7:00 a.m. s. 10.1(a)(b)(c)
sorting required True s. 4.1(i)
container or bag limit Single-family: maximum 5 regulation containers solid waste, 8 recyclables bags/bundles, 1 organics cart per collection day per unit s. 6.1(a)(i)
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 s. 2(gg)
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Municipality of East Hants bylaw governing solid waste and recyclable collection and disposal. Amendment IO-400-1 passed by Council April 24, 2019.

Machine-readable: garbage-recycling.json · Official website: https://www.easthants.ca/ · Last verified 2026-06-05 · Garbage & recycling in other municipalities