{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003169",
 "municipality": "Yarmouth",
 "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://munyarmouth.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Solid Waste Resource Collection and Disposal By-law S-088-24",
   "category": "waste_collection",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-03-27",
   "document_url": "https://munyarmouth.ca/government/by-laws/259-solid-waste-resource-collection-and-disposal-by-law-s-088-24/file",
   "summary": "Provides for and regulates the solid waste management program in the District of Yarmouth; effective March 27 2024.",
   "capture_sha256": "4c10b32eed0e5823e85f49f72d4bd6e13ddae0b82e9c5a993248895884d7df59",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/4c10b32eed0e5823e85f49f72d4bd6e13ddae0b82e9c5a993248895884d7df59.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "sorting_required": true,
    "container_or_bag_limit": "Residual: max 5 bags per collection day (max 15kg each); Recyclables: max 5 bags/containers per collection day (max 15kg each); corrugated cardboard bundles max 20kg, max 60cm x 60cm; compostable organics in organics cart (max 100kg load); brush bundles max 15kg, max 1.2m, max 5cm diameter",
    "accepted_or_banned": "Banned from disposal: redeemable beverage containers, newsprint, used tires, corrugated cardboard, waste paint, steel/tin food containers, HDPE #2, LDPE #4, compostable organics, household hazardous waste; also sharps, pathological waste, asbestos, septic waste, hot ashes, dead animal carcasses >10kg, industrial waste"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "sorting_required": "6.13.1",
    "container_or_bag_limit": "6.14.1.7, 6.14.1.9, 6.14.1.10, 6.14.1.1(g)",
    "accepted_or_banned": "6.1, 6.15.1"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/yarmouth-district-municipality/garbage-recycling/text-4c10b32eed0e/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/yarmouth-district-municipality/garbage-recycling/"
}