The Lunenburg Regional Community Recycling Centre will be open Monday - Saturday, 8:00 am to 4:30pm from April 1 until October 31.

For more information, please contact the Community Recycling Centre at 543-2991.

In late April, a well known chip brand released a compostable chip bag. this new type of packaging is now available at area stores.

This type of product has been determined by the Lunenburg Regional Community Recycling Centre as unacceptable within its composting facility. Compostable chip bags must be placed in garbage and cannot be placed in the compost cart. Compost carts which contain these bags will be rejected as this material is considered a contaminant within the organics stream. 

To learn more about why such bags cannot be placed in the compost cart, click here.

For more information, please contact the Community Recycling Centre at 543-2991.

General Manager Bernice Theriault and staff are very hospitable when it comes to recycling.

Each room is provided with recycling bins so clients can easily separate their waste and procedures for sorting waste from guest rooms are reviewed regularly. Staff reuse paper scraps whenever possible and buy cleaning products in bulk to reduce on waste. 

Now that's five star treatment!

Fall Clean Up of bulky waste items will be held Monday, September 13 - October 8, 2010 in the Municipality. Click here for more information on what will be collected and how much can be placed for Clean Up in the Municipality.

Bulky Landfill items (non-metal) will be collected in the Municipality between Monday, September 13 - Friday, September 24 on residents' regular collection day.

Metal items will be collected between Monday, September 27 - Friday, October 8 on residents' regular collection day. Please do not place clean up items by roadside sooner than 4 days prior to collection or you may be asked to remove them. For more information, please call 543-2991. Fall Clean Up items and regular household waste must be placed for collection in two separate piles by the roadside by 7:00am, as two different trucks collect each type of waste. 

Town Clean Up will be collected as follows:

Lunenburg Friday, September 24, Town office 634-4410

Bridgewater Monday, October 11 - Friday, October 15, clean up waste will be collected on residents' regular collection day, Town office 541-4370

Mahone Bay Monday, October 11, Town office 624-8327

Metal, Landfill Clean Up and regular household waste must be placed in separate piles as each waste type is collected by different trucks on the same day. Click here for more information on what will be collected and how much can be placed for Clean Up in the Towns.

Residents and businesses please be advised that compost will not be available for purchase this season, effective immediately.

Our available compost will be used for a landfill remediation project. The compost will be used in an innovative way to protect the new landfill cover that will be placed to permanently close our cells. Its use will be less expensive than more conventional methods for landfill remediation.

We expect to resume normal compost sales next year. For more information please call 543-2991.

During the warmer months, maggots may appear in your compost cart. These tips will help to reduce them, however, it may be impossible to eliminate them.

 Click here for tips to make your cart less inviting to flies.

A tipping fee waiver program is in effect for property owners  that wish to clean up illegally dumped waste from their property.

Program details may be obtained from the Recycling Centre. It is suggested that residents arrange a dumpsite visit to ensure wastes are sorted and deemed acceptable according to Recycling Centre Site Regulations. For more information, please call 543-2991.