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Waste Management

B Trail Road Landfill, Ottawa, ON - Photo: © Jim Moyes 2004Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling, or disposal of solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes in ways that reduce their effect on human health and the environment.

Waste can be treated using thermal, chemical, biological, physical and other processes in order to reduce its volume, to recover materials for recycling or to produce energy. Landfill is a common way of disposing of solid waste, while liquid waste is often injected underground.

Find information here on waste-management technologies and strategies, as well as ways to rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle waste outputs.

Selected Content

  • Contaminated Sites Management Working Group

    This Group was created to promote and develop a consistent approach for the management of federal contaminated sites issues.

  • Development and Demonstration of Site Remediation Technology

    This program aims to stimulate the development and demonstration of innovative techniques to provide solutions for contaminated site clean-up operations.

  • Disposal at Sea Program

    Environment Canada administers a permit system controlling the disposal of waste and other matter at sea.

  • Landfill Gas: Overview

    These technical bulletins highlight the success stories of facilities in Canada that use landfill gas to generate electricity and heat.

  • Management of Toxic Substances

    This section provides information on toxic substances managed under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

  • Marine Debris in Canada

    This section provides information on marine debris and how we can all help.

  • Resilog Waste Management Newsletter

    This Environment Canada newsletter provides information on hazardous waste across Canada.

  • St. Lawrence Vision 2000: 106 Industrial Plants

    A list of 106 industrial plants was established under St. Lawrence Vision2000, the second phase of the St. Lawrence Action Plan, launched in 1988. The objective is to reduce liquid toxic waste and eliminate discharges of persistent toxic substances in the St. Lawrence.

  • Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum and Allied Petroleum Products

    This section provides technical information on codes and regulations for storage tanks for petroleum and petroleum products.

  • Technological Innovation Data Sheets

    Find information here on technology development and demonstration projects carried out in the following sectors: wastewater, air emissions, contaminated soil, waste management, hazardous waste, agri-environment and innovative tools and processes.

  • Waste Management

    Environment Canada is responsible for implementing international agreements aimed at the monitoring and control of transboundary movements of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes and recyclable materials.

  • Waste Management Guide for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

    This guide is designed to assist small and medium-sized enterprises in developing and implementing a customized waste management program that is tailored to their needs.

  • Wastewater

    This section provides information on the effects of wastewater effluents on the environment and the steps Environment Canada is taking to address this source of pollution.

  • Wood Preservation

    This section provides information about the management of toxic environmental contaminants that are used within the Canadian wood preservation industry.

Date Modified: 2007-03-20

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