1st Edition
Solid Waste Management in Canada Approaches, Practices, and Experiences
About the editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anderson Assuah and Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng
PART 1 Waste management policy and governance
1 Moving up the waste hierarchy: A Canadian case study
Gabriella Dee and Myra J. Hird
2 Municipal strategies for zero waste planning
Thoreau Rory Tooke and Christina Seidel
3 Challenges and opportunities for industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) waste compliance in Nova Scotia
Hunar Arora and Tony R. Walker
4 Bridging the gap: Communicating sustainability in waste management to diverse audiences
Calvin Lakhan
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
Amy Richter, Nima Karimi and Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng
6 Municipal solid waste management in Northern Manitoba municipalities
Anderson Assuah
7 Municipal solid waste management in First Nations: Examining operational challenges and solutions
Anderson Assuah
PART 3 Community-based waste management approaches
8 Contribution of waste pickers’ grassroots organizations to waste management in Victoria and Vancouver
Ana Maria Rodrigues Costa de Castro and Jutta Gutberlet
9 Recycling right: A multi-stakeholder perspective from Ontario
Scott Cameron Lougheed and Virginia Maclaren
10 Recycling behaviors and knowledge in Western Newfoundland: Explanations and recommendations
Hadiya Bamragha and Garrett Richards
PART 4 Landfills and innovative waste management
11 Field investigation and numerical modeling of MSW settlement in cold regions
Wameed Alghazali, Paul J. Van Geel and Shawn Kenny
12 Landfill biocell technology for northern climates: The Calgary Biocell
Poornima Jayasinghe, J. Patrick Hettiaratchi, Saranga Munasinghage, Seniru Ruwanpura, Hiroshan Hettiarachchi, Dinesh Pokhrel, Gopal Achari and Olufemi Akintunde
13 Phosphorus recovery from food waste: A case study of Canadian solid waste management practices
Pradeep Thapa, Shailja Pant, Prangya Ranjan Rout and Qiuyan Yuan
14 Analyzing geospatial characteristics and solar potential of closed landfill sites in Saskatchewan
Anica Tasnim, Amy Richter and Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng
PART 5 Emerging waste management
15 Emerging solid wastes and arising environmental impacts
Delezia S. Singh
16 Wind turbine end- of- life waste management in Nova Scotia, Canada
Mercy D. Fiamavle and Tony R. Walker
17 Enhancing waste management systems in Canada: Integration of geographic information system and remote sensing approaches
Nima Karimi, Amy Richter and Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng
Index
Biography
Anderson Assuah is an associate professor in the Aboriginal and Northern Studies program at the University College of the North (The Pas Campus), Manitoba, Canada.
Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng is Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering at the University of Regina, Canada.
