Waste Management
Nature has evolved with a proficiency at managing her own waste, and ensuring the effective and efficient recycling of natural materials. Humankind has impinged on this sustainable process, interjecting an abundance of waste and waste products which include a full suite of manmade products that have extended lifelines and which persist in our environment. By capitalizing on the proficiencies of our natural environment and promoting the reuse of products, we can only hope to achieve a refuse management revolution.
Waste management includes all of the processes required to ensure waste is transported, stored, processed, treated and monitored properly. Because waste can include everything from raw sewage, consumer product waste, to industrial discharges and emissions, these processes must themselves be diverse. A broad spectrum of waste management strategies are needed to reduce environmental and human health impacts. Such impacts may include:
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How do waste issues affect us locally?While we do generate less waste than larger centres or cities, Renfrew County is not without its share of waste management challenges.
AECL in Chalk River is a key waste management area for both radioactive and nonradioactive wastes. Ongoing vigilance in the monitoring of those impacts locally is a primary goal of the AECL facility. Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities in this county both treat and generate waste. The Pembroke Pollution Control centre, as an example, is a facility that uses a non-chemical process to treat its wastes, leveraging the natural power of microbes to do the decontamination and breakdown work. The Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre is a key player in the management of various types of wastes generated in the county, including municipal waste and recycling, electronic waste, paint and paint product waste, food waste, and residential waste. Examples of Local InitiativesThe Town of Eganville’s collaboration with Bishop Water technologies to address local septage needs
OVWRC Waste management submit your student photos contest Ontario Waste Management Association Recycling Council of Ontario Proposed Waste Reduction Act Ottawa Valley Waste Recovery Centre and their educational resources Pembroke Pollution Control Centre – Primary and Secondary wastewater treatment system Algonquin College Sustainability Club |