Circular economy and waste: engagement
The Government of Nova Scotia is developing a plan to reduce waste to 300 kg per person per year by 2030. Share your ideas on what the plan should include, how to grow the province’s circular economy and ways to reduce waste.
About the engagement
Government is committed to growing the circular economy (an economy with no wasted energy or materials) by reducing the provincial solid waste disposal rate to 300 kg per person per year by 2030. Right now, the solid waste disposal rate is about 400 kg per person per year, so that will reduce waste by 25%. To support the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act, government is also developing a plan to help Nova Scotia reach this target.
Nova Scotians are invited to share ideas on what the plan should include, how to encourage the province’s circular economy and how we can reduce waste. Government is also looking for feedback from solid waste resource management groups from municipalities, First Nations communities, industry and non-governmental organizations to help develop the plan.
We need your ideas about:
- using valuable resources wisely
- how to think about waste as a resource instead of a cost
- how to find innovative ways to better the environment and the economy
Get informed
Reducing waste and growing our circular economy:
- supports more than 4,000 existing jobs in the sector
- creates new jobs
- improves economic efficiencies
- preserves valuable resources
- lessens economic and environmental impacts associated with disposal
- reduces greenhouse gases to help mitigate climate change
Learn more about Nova Scotia’s environmental goals, background and policy ideas, and suggestions on how we can reduce waste disposed in our landfills to no more than 300 kg per person per year.
- Discussion Paper - Encouraging the Circular Economy in Nova Scotia (PDF)
- Discussion Paper Summary - Encouraging the Circular Economy in Nova Scotia (PDF)
- Discussion Paper Summary - Encouraging the Circular Economy in Nova Scotia: French (PDF)
- Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act (PDF)
How to participate
Survey closed on 29 September 2023.
Next steps
The ideas will be shared with government to help inform the plan.
More information about the engagement
You can send questions about the circular economy and waste engagement to swrm@novascotia.ca (you can also share ideas and ask questions in French).
Contact
Department of Environment and Climate Change
Circular economy and waste engagement
swrm@novascotia.ca