Municipal Solid Waste Collection Frequency and Service Coverage for Nova Scotia

A dataset from the Government of Nova Scotia, last updated on 2026-04-17, describing curbside waste collection services. It indicates collection frequency, coded from 1 (once per year) to 52 (weekly), and includes the number of residences and businesses serviced. The data is available under the OGL-CA-2.0 license in multiple formats including CSV and XML.

Use Cases

• Modeling waste collection logistics and resource allocation based on service frequency.
• Analyzing service coverage and equity based on the number of serviced residences and businesses.
• Benchmarking municipal waste collection performance across different service areas.

Strengths

• Explicitly defines collection frequency with a numeric scale (1 to 52).
• Includes counts of serviced residences and businesses.
• Published by a government authority (Government of Nova Scotia).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its source in Nova Scotia.

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia

Collection Method

Likely administrative data from municipal service records.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:27:53.451297; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada