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Recycling in Nova Scotia

Learn more about Nova Scotia’s enhanced recycling system.

Your recycling program

New regulations in Nova Scotia shift the financial and operational responsibility for recycling from municipalities to the organizations that produce and sell packaging and paper.

Circular Materials is the producer responsibility organization that will be responsible for implementing and managing the new extended producer responsibility recycling system for packaging and paper in Nova Scotia.

The transition to this new framework will take place on December 1, 2025.

Why Recycle?

By recycling, you make a difference. 

Your recyclables – once collected, sorted and processed – can be used again and again, coming back into your home as another product or packaging! 

By recycling, you help protect our environment and conserve our planet’s natural resources. 

Recycling in action

Latest news

November 1, 2024

New Brunswick Marks One Year Since Transition to Extended Producer Responsibility

Change text: Find out more about Ontario's transition to an enhanced recycling system.

September 23, 2024

First-of-its-kind Material Access Program will return recycled material back to producers

Circular Materials is developing a first-of-its-kind Material Access Program, which will return recycled material directly back to producers for use in new products and packaging.

September 5, 2024

Circular Materials and Health Products Stewardship Association Collaborate to Advance Innovation and Recycling Efforts 

Circular Materials and the Health Products Stewardship Association (HPSA) are excited to announce a strategic collaboration focused on advancing common goals and sharing best practices for recycling education and material management in Ontario and New Brunswick to enhance public awareness and support recycling.