Last updated on October 15, 2025
Curbside Give Away Weekend
Free yourself of clutter and find some great free items of your own during Curbside Give Away Weekend. This event takes place rain or shine, twice a year all across the municipality.
The next event is October 18 and 19. Click here for more information.
Waste Reduction Week
This year for Waste Reduction Week, we’re celebrating the power of thrifting, because when we choose secondhand, we’re choosing community, creativity, and a future with less waste. By swapping, sharing, thrifting, and repairing, we keep useful items in circulation and help grow a circular economy that benefits everyone.
Be Kind, Rewear – Circular Economy and Textile Information Session
Date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Helen Creighton Room in the Alderney Public Library - drop in event
Do you ever wonder what to do with an old item that’s still in usable condition? Maybe you need something but don’t want to purchase it new? Or maybe you just need to repair an item to make it useful again. This presentation provides a guide to the many resources that allow you to share, borrow, and repair items. Participants can expect interactive conversations about the circular economy, textiles, and information on thrifting best practices.
Gifted at thrifting? Show us! All Nova Scotia residents are eligible to enter The Gifted Thrifter contest put on by Divert Nova Scotia for a chance to win a thrifting experience for 2, including a $500 gift card to a thrift store of your choice and $50 at a local cafe. Submit a photo of your favourite thrifted #fitcheck here for a chance to win: divertns.ca/wrw Let's get thrifty with it!
What Goes Where - Waste Sorting Webinar
Date: Wednesday October 22, 2025
Time: 12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Location: Online | Teams
Have you ever wondered whether it belongs in the garbage or recycling? This 30 minute webinar will help you become a recycling champion and sort waste at home.
Food Isn’t Garbage and Vermicomposting
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Captain William Spry Public Library, 16 Sussex Street Halifax, NS
Registration Required (40 seats available).
Food Isn’t Garbage
Learn tips and tricks to help reduce food waste and keep organic material out of landfill! From meal planning to shopping and food storage advice, we will provide tips for how you can save on your grocery bill while helping to reduce waste.
Vermicomposting
Did you know that you can create healthy soil in your home from food scraps that would otherwise go into your green cart? With the help of red wiggler worms you can turn food scraps into “gardeners gold” in the comfort of your home. This workshop will teach you all about how to set up and maintain a vermicomposting bin so that the worms can create nutrient rich castings for your lawn and garden. There will also be a fun worm themed craft for kids, and one lucky participant will go home with a complete vermicomposter. Space is limited.
Swap, Share, Thrift, and Repair + Upcycling Craft
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Captain William Spry Public Library, 16 Sussex Street Halifax, NS
Registration Required (25 seats available).
Do you ever wonder what to do with an old item that’s still in usable condition? Maybe you need something but don’t want to purchase it new? Or maybe you just need to repair an item to make it useful again. This presentation provides a guide to the many resources that allow you to share, borrow, and repair items. Participants will also get hands on with a fun t-shirt upcycling activity allowing them to take a cool reusable bag home at the end of the session. All materials will be provided, and one lucky participant will win a waste reduction prize pack. Space is limited!
Shred Instead Event
Have sensitive documents you’d like to shred? Bring them to our Shred Instead Event to have them disposed of safely and for free. Shredding documents is a great way to protect against identity theft. Limit of the equivalent of 3 boxes per household. Residential only, no business waste accepted.
Fall Shred Event | Fall River
Event Information & Online Webinars
Halifax Solid Waste staff regularly attend and host events throughout the municipality. If you have an event that you would like our staff to attend please contact us at wasteless@halifax.ca.
Solid Waste Resources offers a full menu of pre-recorded webinars, online presentations and workshops, and in person presentations, workshops, and information booths.
To see a full list of education sessions available or to watch a webinar click the button below.