{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003147",
 "municipality": "Lunenburg",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "waste_collection",
 "label": "Garbage & recycling",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "https://townoflunenburg.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Solid Waste Management By-law No. 963",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://townoflunenburg.ca/bylaws-2/bylaws/963-solid-waste-bylaw-final-november-2020.html",
   "summary": "Governs solid waste management and collection within the Town of Lunenburg.",
   "capture_sha256": "faf061d3e88a3b2e9185bd574156b05cdbadd15429e9ecaa9b0f95d44199bc90",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/faf061d3e88a3b2e9185bd574156b05cdbadd15429e9ecaa9b0f95d44199bc90.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "collection_schedule": "Biweekly recyclables (every 2 weeks at 6:00 a.m.); organic materials and residual waste on alternating biweekly week at 6:00 a.m.; results in collection of some stream each week",
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Maximum 6 clear bags of residual waste per eligible premises per collection day; maximum 100 kg residual waste total per eligible premises per collection day; 1 non-transparent bag per eligible premises per collection day",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Non-collectible: fireworks, flares, explosive/combustible materials, pathogenic/biomedical waste, animal carcasses (except food waste), household hazardous waste, designated electronic products, transient waste, liquid waste, soil/rock/stumps, construction/demolition materials, septic pumpings, radioactive materials, passenger tires, industrial waste, manure/kennel waste, lead-acid batteries/propane tanks, landfill-banned liquid wastes"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "collection_schedule": "s. 3; s. 4; s. 5",
    "sorting_required": "s. 2(f)(i–iv); ss. 15–16",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "s. 30; s. 28(a)",
    "accepted_or_banned": "s. 2(y) i–xviii"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/lunenburg-town/garbage-recycling/text-faf061d3e88a/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/lunenburg-town/garbage-recycling/"
}