ENVS195 Final: Waste Management

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS195
• Professor: Erin Joakim

Document Summary

Deining waste depends on: time (e. g. new products, war/shortage, locaion (e. g. rural/small town vs. urban, climaic diferences, culture (e. g. food-wise, social condiions (e. g. poor vs. rich) Waste management systems: in-house waste handling, litering/unmanaged waste handling, return system, municipal waste management, industrial waste management, hazardous waste management. Soluion #1: enhanced waste management policies: e. g. 2: extend producer responsibility + product stewardship: e. g. Soluion #2: waste diversion methods: reusing goods, recycling, composing and mulching yard waste, source separated organics, household hazardous waste system. Example: waterloo landill reusing strategies: goodwill industries. Diverted 490 tonnes in 2012: habitat restore. Diverted 735 tonnes in 2012: recycling cycle. Educaion and outreach centers: renovated on-site building, heavy emphasis on re-use, hands on aciviies, tour landill and mrf, 3,700 students through 2012. Asnaes power plant: 1,500 mw coal ired power plant owned and operated by dong energy, asnaes receives 95% of its water needs from the eip (mostly from statoil, provides steam for much of the eip.