Cumberland County landfill divestiture offers new model Save article Remove saved article

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