Regional Waste Management, Transfer Stations, & Landfill
Information Session
SEIMA: WDM North Battleford
November 18, 2014
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Trying to take a holistic approach with waste
and recycling
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Want to see communities collaborating with
communities
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Risk
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Environmental impacts
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Health impacts
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Long term liability
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Bottom line
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Landfills have requirements to follow
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Waste is not free to dispose of
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Landfills can run to make a profit
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New legislation is about a cultural shift
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Money
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New accounting standards effective 2015 (PS
3260)
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| Regional Waste Management, Recycling, and Landfill Information Session. November 18, 2014 |
Environmental Code
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Enforced in stages
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Landfill and Transfer Stations are included in
the 1st edition
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Some landfill aspects will be included
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Regulation through
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A variety of acts EMPA
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Municipal Refuse and Management Regulations 1986
doesn’t need financial assurance and is municipally owned
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IEW and HSWDG about burning and hazardous goods
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What about How?
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MRMR is not prescriptive
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The code can be adjusted every 6 months
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Acceptable solution and alternative solution
Compliance Audit Program
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4 landfills were audited this year
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Audit vs inspection
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Audit: systematic, independent and documented
process to determine state of landfill
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Inspection: a point of time verifying compliance
with regulations
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4 types of audit findings
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Positive finding
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Easily corrected
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Non-compliance with non-immediate threat and
needs correction
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Immediate threat with immediate correction and
formal compliance
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Compliance audit model is risk based and is
meant to be collaborative
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2015 risk based audit selection includes waste
and looking at high risk landfills
Landfill Design and Operations
Design
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Protect ground and surface water
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Modern landfills are highly engineered
containment system: protect the environment
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Permit to construct is issued to owner of site
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4 design options: Landfill Design Best
Practices, Alberta Code, SK Draft code, specifically designed for waste and
site
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450 metres from humans, 300 from water, not in a
flood plain,
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Designated areas for different types of
materials
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Environmental control systems to contain
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Landfill gas management: gases from the waste
Operations
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Cover and compaction only when operation is
closed to the public
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Burn small loads more often than do less
frequent big burns
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Signage needs to be clear
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Operational plan: identify all permit
requirements
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Identify, daily, weekly, and monthly activities
(part of new code)
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Use GPS for site locations of some products
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Permittee has weekly/monthly inspections
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Be a good neighbour and clean up debris
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Good plan includes: operation plan, ERP
stations, parameters, and frequency
Landfills and TRansfer Stations
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Waste burning prohibited for a long time
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Toxics that go up will come down: toxic
particulate will settle on land and urban
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Carbon monoxide exposure
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Toxic particulate can go down to aquifers
Landfill Closure
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180 days’ notice of closure
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Need a site assessment and corrective action
plan
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Subsurface, chemicals, groundwater, migration of
contaminants
Soils
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Soil guidelines on website with drop down menu
and answers
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Again, operation plans outlining intentions
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Will WRLI be doing land farming? Treating
contaminated soil?
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Does fracking produce contaminated soil?
Groundwater Monitoring
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Monitor impact of ground water to assess if a
threat to human or environment
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All landfills leak and they are a toxic stew
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Monitoring depends on site assessment
Transfer Stations
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Supervised during hours of operation
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Similar to the operation of a landfill
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Designated areas clearly identified
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Ensure proper design: access to public, access
to site, removal of waste
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Collection of temporary waste is same as
landfill
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Recent findings: clean wood piles are not clean
wood piles
Multi-Material Stewardship Western
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Funding in year 3 to be based on Sask numbers
rather than the launch using Manitoba numbers
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Still working out kinks re papers and other
producers
Litter and Illegal Dumping
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TIPS is now used as a tool to catch violators
Municipality Capacity Building
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Lots of services including waste management
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Promote municipal cooperation and collaboration
Association of Regional Waste Management Authorities
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Goal is for Sask to reduce waste 50%
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Will we become a regional waste management
authority?
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To assist regions with new program
design/development
SWANA
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Advance practice of sound municipal solid waste
management
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Landfill operators in Sask do not need to be
certified but looking at a recommendation to undertake training
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Landfills are about the preservation of your
airspace
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Operators need to plan 18 months out
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Landfills now need a Crisis Committee for
emergency responses
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How do you deal with 500 fridges at one time?
Waste Stewardship and Recycling
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Hope to achieve: avoid, reduce, reuse, recycle,
recover, dispose
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Regulated programs include: beverage containers,
used auto fluids, scrap tires, electronics, paint, ag plastics, etc
SK Waste Reduction Council
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Recycling database: saskwastereduction.ca
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New is: household hazardous waste is only 1%-2%
but dangerous, ag plastics, expansion of electronics recycling, food waste
reduction and composting ($27 billion wasted per year and households waste 50%)
Recycle SK
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Recycling groups working together to coordinate
activities
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To grow product management programs in SK
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