{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003146",
 "municipality": "Lunenburg",
 "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.modl.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "By-law No. 039 — Solid Waste Collection & Disposal By-law",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://www.modl.ca/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=7727-by-law-039-solid-waste-collection-disposal&category_slug=municipal-by-laws&Itemid=281",
   "summary": "Solid Waste Collection & Disposal By-law of the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg.",
   "capture_sha256": "25f6dc74233af53c8d9c66f8a8e7527e89d0846eed8903e085827ef6f5969932",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/25f6dc74233af53c8d9c66f8a8e7527e89d0846eed8903e085827ef6f5969932.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "At least once every fourteen (14) days commencing at 7:00 a.m.; special collections for electronics, wood/metal, and Christmas trees annually",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Maximum 140 kg total per dwelling unit per collection day; maximum 4 cubic metres total volume per dwelling unit per collection day; 2 bulky waste items every 14 days; 1 wheeled aerated cart per dwelling unit",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Unacceptable: combustible/explosive materials, pathogenic/biomedical waste, whole/part carcasses of domestic ruminants, hazardous waste (except HHW), electronics (except annual collection), transient waste, liquid waste, soil/rock/stumps, construction/demolition materials, septic pumpings, radioactive materials, contaminated soil, passenger tires, industrial waste, manure/kennel waste, lead-acid batteries/propane tanks, landfill-banned materials"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "s. 4(1)(a)",
    "sorting_required": "s. 4.1(i) (source-separate); s. 6(1)",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "s. 9(1)(a)(b)",
    "accepted_or_banned": "s. 2(y) i–xviii"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/lunenburg-district-municipality/garbage-recycling/text-25f6dc74233a/",
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  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/lunenburg-district-municipality/garbage-recycling/"
}