Solid Waste Management in Canada

Approaches, Practices, and Experiences

Anderson Assuah, Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040345580
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Technologie et ingénierie
• Subtopic: Gestion industrielle

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities. It provides the reader with an understanding of various solid waste management approaches, policies, practices, barriers, and innovations that are being pursued and developed by jurisdictions to solve their current challenges and improve current systems in place. Solid waste management remains one of the most challenging environmental concerns in the 21st century. Understanding its complexity by bridging theory and practice is essential for current and future management, and for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Using a multidisciplinary approach, contributors include social scientists, engineers, economists, scientists, urban planners, and practitioners in the solid waste management field, who utilize qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in examining solid waste management issues in Canada. Topics include solid waste management policy and governance, community- based approaches to waste management, waste management in northern, remote, rural, and Indigenous communities, landfill management and stabilization, and innovative and emergent waste management. This book is an important resource for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers, solid waste management professionals, government officials, and members of the public interested in solid waste management.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the editors
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1 Waste management policy and governance
• 1 Moving up the waste hierarchy: A Canadian case study
• 2 Municipal strategies for zero waste planning
• 3 Challenges and opportunities for industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) waste compliance in Nova Scotia
• 4 Bridging the gap: Communicating sustainability in waste management to diverse audiences
• Part 2 Waste management in northern, remote, rural and Indigenous communities
• 5 Waste stewardship in northern, remote, rural and First Nations communities in Saskatchewan: Challenges and opportunities
• 6 Municipal solid waste management in Northern Manitoba municipalities
• 7 Municipal solid waste management in First Nations: Examining operational challenges and solutions
• Part 3 Community-based waste management approaches
• 8 Contribution of waste pickers’ grassroots organizations to waste management in Victoria and Vancouver
• 9 Recycling right: A multi-stakeholder perspective from Ontario
• 10 Recycling behaviors and knowledge in Western Newfoundland: Explanations and recommendations
• Part 4 Landfills and innovative waste management
• 11 Field investigation and numerical modeling of MSW settlement in cold regions
• 12 Landfill biocell technology for northern climates: The Calgary Biocell
• 13 Phosphorus recovery from food waste: A case study of Canadian solid waste management practices
• 14 Analyzing geospatial characteristics and solar potential of closed landfill sites in Saskatchewan
• Part 5 Emerging waste management
• 15 Emerging solid wastes and arising environmental impacts
• 16 Wind turbine end-of-life waste management in Nova Scotia, Canada
• 17 Enhancing waste management systems in Canada: Integration of geographic information system and remote sensing approaches
• Index