ENV100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 64: Fax, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Life-Cycle Assessment
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The beare road landfill: making good use of old garbage. 1968 1983: the beare road pit received municipal garbage from toronto. 1996: began to collect the methane-rich gas being generated by the decomposing garbage (lfgte, landfill gas-to-electricity) Waste management is changing in the throwaway age . Changes in consumption patterns: consumption increases with income and with urbanization. Changes in quantity and types of waste: quantity of waste increases with consumption, emerging categories of waste: hazardous, nuclear, and military waste, and now e-waste. Waste in canada has increased with growth in population and gdp. The nature of materials and packaging has changed substantially from 100 years ago: more durable materials, more anthropogenic, hazardous, and nonbiodegradable materials. Waste management is changing: both quantity and composition. Historical: cloth, natural fibre, plant material, wood. Modern: wood, cardboard, glass, plastic: modern packaging materials are durable and degrade much more slowly -
