Question

Waste management in Canada. collect information

Answer 1

• Waste management refers to activities required to manage wastes from its inception to its final disposal.
• The main purpose of Canada waste management programme is to develop a sustained wastemanagement, by introducing new recycling and disposal techniques in Canada.
• In Canada, responsibility for waste management is shared among federal, provincial, territorial and municipal govegovernments. Municipal governments are mainly responsible for collecting and managing wastes from households for recycling and dispdisposal, while territorial and provincial governments are responsible to approve and monitor policies and procedures related to waste management.
• It all started in 1981,where first curbside recycling was started in Canada. In 2008,Canadian! S produced over 1031KG of waste per person, which is almost equivalent to per capita production of 2006.It turned out to be 34 million tones of waste, to be haldled BT waste management industry in CanDCanada. This was the casein 2008 with non residential sources contributing 67% of wastes or disposal, where it was33% from residential sources.
• Several wastemanagement policies and recycling techniques have been shared with stakeholders and public at large, through workshops and conferences, thereby creating various career opportunities CTO public at large, in waste management industry.
• The most promising waste management business opportunities in Canada include:
• Waste to energy
• Waste as feedstock
• Bio energy
• Landfills etc
• major Canadian cities now use, an improved method of waste disposal called Sanitary landfilling, in which series of alternative layers of refuse and soil are buildup
• Incineration, is most common method of refuse treatment in Canada.
• In September 2013, Canadian public and private authority represrntatives visited Dutch authorities at local and national level and 13 recycling companies, with special focus on com posting and digestion of bio waste and C-D waste.
• With the exchange of dutch experience at local, provincial and federal levels, Canadian government has set policies and adopted various waste diversion methods witha vision 2050, presenting to public and private stake holders.
• These waste management matters include anaerobic digestion, industrial com posting, energy from waste and biological disposals.
• Therefore, in recent years, there has been a move to community recycling programme,so that majority of canada's population has access to recycling programmes.