Solid Waste Management in Canada

Approaches, Practices, and Experiences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87209-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Critical Discard Studies

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 to 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 transdisciplinary 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Assuah, Anderson

Tsun Wai Ng, Kelvin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Immobilien & Anlagen
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 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 Behaviours and Knowledge in Western Newfoundland: Explanations and Recommendations. PART 4: LANDFILLS AND INNOVATIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT. 11. Field Investigation and Numerical Modelling of MSW Settlement in Cold Regions. 12. Landfill Biocell Technology for Northern Climates: The Calgary Biocell. 13. Composting As a Promising Alternative for 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Anderson Assuah is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Northern Studies program at University College of the North (The Pas campus), Manitoba. His research mainly focuses on solid waste management, sustainability, environmental governance, Indigenous environmental knowledge, and climate change in northern, rural, and Indigenous communities. Dr. Assuah is the founder and chairperson of the University College of the North Sustainability Committee, which promotes Indigenous and non-Indigenous sustainability strategies in northern Manitoba. He earned his Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada.

 

Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng is Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering at University of Regina, Canada. Kelvin’s fields of interest are in sustainable solid waste management, particularly in data-driven waste policy and waste systems design. Kelvin has received awards in both teaching and research. Kelvin has reviewed over 510 journal manuscripts. Kelvin is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Waste Management (Elsevier), an editor for Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer), and an editorial board member for Ecological Informatics (Elsevier). Kelvin has made editorial decisions on 220+ journal manuscripts as editor or associate editor. Kelvin has organized seven international conferences.