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Cumberland County landfill divestiture offers new model

by LATIMER K
Published in May 2022 - Page 23

Waste management often eats up an awful lot of municipal fiscal and human resources. Faced with the continuing and growing challenges associated with owning and operating a municipal solid waste management system, Nova Scotia’s Cumberland County and the towns of Amherst and Oxford concluded taxpayer interests could best be protected through a different business model.

The three municipalities face challenges typical of many rural Canadian municipalities. Urbanization is eating away at the municipalities’ population and

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