Organic Composting Facilities in Nova Scotia
| Facility | Type of Operation/ Capacity (tonnes/yr) |
Serving | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Region: 1 | |||
| Baddeck Composting Facility Baddeck, Victoria County |
Food and yard waste 300 |
IC&I | Jim MacLean 902-295-2026 |
| West Arichat Composting Facility West Arichat, Richmond County |
Food and yard waste 750 |
IC&I | Jerome Ford 902-226-2400 |
| Region: 2 | |||
| Guysborough Composting Facility Guysborough County |
Enclosed IC&I food and yard waste 2,850 |
IC&I | Bruce Avery 902-232-2316 |
| * Atlantic Country Compost (TE Boyle Farm & Forestry Limited) Tracadie, Antigonish County |
Fish processing waste, food and farm waste, wood chips composting 10,000 |
IC&I | Terrance and Mary Boyle 902-232-3317 or 902-863-7845 |
| The Pictou County Solid Waste Management Composting Facility Mount William, Pictou County |
In-vessel food and yard waste, wood 6,250 |
IC&I and Residential | Lonie Ferguson 902-396-1495 |
| Region: 3 | |||
| Colchester Balefill / Composting Facility Kemptown, Colchester County |
In-vessel food and yard waste, paper products 6,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Andrew Blackburn 902-895-2304 |
| * Fundy Compost Incorporated Brookfield, Colchester County |
Sawdust, food and yard waste, fish meal, biosolids, source separated organics 12,000 |
IC&I (sludge) and Residential (East Hants) | Walter Termeer 902-899-2348 |
| Cumberland Central Composting Facility Little Forks, Cumberland County |
Enclosed food and yard waste, paper products 5,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Tanya Mackenzie 902-667-5141 |
| Region: 4 | |||
| * Miller Waste Systems Burnside Industrial Park, HRM |
In-vessel food and yard waste, grease trap sludge, wood chips, sawdust and bark, paper products 25,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Martin Tanner 902-468-3161 |
| * New Era Farms Ragged Lake Industrial Park, HRM |
In-vessel food and yard waste, paper products 25,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Gerald Tibbo 902-876-5185 |
| ** Kel-Ann Organics Bedford, HRM |
Leaf and yard waste 13,000 |
IC&I and Residential Leaf & Yard | Stephen or Michael Pink 902-835-7645 |
| ** Cowie Hill Composting Facility Halifax, HRM |
Leaf and yard waste from park/city maintenance 10,000 |
IC&I (waste from own operations) | Brian Phelan 902-490-4867 |
| Region: 5 | |||
| * Northridge Farms Demsey Corners, Kings County |
In vessel food and yard waste 9,600 |
IC&I | Dwight Horsnell 902-847-3691 |
| Region: 6 | |||
| Lunenburg Regional Recycling and Composting Facility Whynott Settlement, Lunenburg County |
In-vessel food and yard waste, paper products, municipal sewage sludge, sawdust, bark, wood chips, fish processing waste 10,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Kevin Wentzel or Dave Daniels 902-543-2991 |
| * Bowater Mersey Brooklyn, Queens Regional Municipality |
Windrows of secondary sludge, bark and sawdust | IC&I (waste from own operations) | Renee Estabrook 902-354-8600 |
| * Louisiana Pacific Resources Group Technology (formerly ABT Canada Ltd.) East River, Chester |
Wood waste processing 50,000 |
IC&I (waste from own operations) | Melissa MacIntyre 902-275-2974 |
| Region: 7 | |||
| Town of Yarmouth Compost Facility South Ohio, Yarmouth County |
In-vessel food and yard waste, paper products 9,000 |
IC&I and Residential | Scott Doucette 902-742-5220 |
| * Spectacle Lake Concrete & Excavating Ltd. Campsite Environmental Inc. Compost Facility Church Point, Digby County |
Mink carcasses (mix with sawdust) 2,500 |
IC&I | Hubert LeBlanc 902-769-2777 |
| Legend | |
|---|---|
| * | privately-owned facility |
| ** | accepts leaf and yard wase only |
| IC&I | refers to the industrial, commercial and institutional sector |
| Residential | refers to household green carts |
