Garbage & recycling — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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

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

By-law No. 039 — Solid Waste Collection & Disposal By-law adopted bylaw
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 s. 4(1)(a)
sorting required True s. 4.1(i) (source-separate); s. 6(1)
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 s. 9(1)(a)(b)
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 s. 2(y) i–xviii
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Solid Waste Collection & Disposal By-law of the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg.

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