Surplus Crown Property Scrap Waste Inventory from Nova Scotia

Government of Nova Scotia provides a dataset cataloging surplus Crown property items deemed to have no value. The data covers items where refurbishing is uneconomical and includes materials removed for environmental or safety reasons, such as obsolete medical equipment. It is available in XML, CSV, HTML, and RSS formats under the OGL-CA-2.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing government waste streams based on categories of surplus property mentioned in the description
• Tracking disposal of items with environmental or safety considerations, such as medical equipment
• Studying the lifecycle and end-of-use status of public assets
• Modeling material recovery and recycling potential from surplus government goods

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Government of Nova Scotia
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV and XML
• Explicitly licensed under OGL-CA-2.0 for open use

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 open_canada, focusing on Nova Scotia

Provenance

Source

Government of Nova Scotia

Collection Method

Likely compiled from government asset disposal and surplus property management processes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-29 18:07:30.974597; freshness should be verified

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada