Garbage & recycling — Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

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

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

Solid Waste Management By-law No. 963 adopted bylaw
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 s. 3; s. 4; s. 5
sorting required True s. 2(f)(i–iv); ss. 15–16
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 s. 30; s. 28(a)
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 s. 2(y) i–xviii
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Governs solid waste management and collection within the Town of Lunenburg.

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