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 About RRFB Nova Scotia
2007 Annual Report
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| Each year RRFB Nova Scotia works with communities, schools, municipalities, businesses and individuals across the province to improve our environment, economy and quality of life. How? By providing the tools and support needed to reduce, reuse, recycle and recover waste-resources.
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Nova Scotians can be proud of their environmental achievements in reducing waste. This past year we have:
- recycled 268 million beverage containers
- recovered over 1.1 million used tires
- recycled 268,000 litres of leftover paint
- composted 83,000 tonnes of organic material
- recycled 46,000 tonnes of recyclable materials through municipal programs
- kept 100,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste out of landfills
- cleaned up 1594 derelict vehicles from roadsides and properties around the province
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Annual Reports
About Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a small province on Canada’s Atlantic coast, with a population of approximately
944,000. The province is a peninsula, with all but a tiny portion of its border being ocean
coastline. Nova Scotia’s economy is based primarily in community, business and personal
services, finance, insurance and real estate, government services, tourism, retail and
manufacturing, and resource industries such as forestry, agriculture and the fishery.
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Mandate 1 - Fund municipal waste diversion programs across the province