18-Env-B5 Industrial & Hazardous Waste Management · May 2015
Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)
Reference texts: Nemerow & Dasgupta, Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment, 2nd ed.; Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 5th ed.; Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 6th ed.; LaGrega, Buckingham & Evans, Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd ed.; CCME, Guidelines for the Management of Biomedical Waste in Canada (1992); Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999; Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes (1989); provincial hazardous waste regulations (e.g. BC's Environmental Management Act and Hazardous Waste Regulation).
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Provincial: British Columbia's Environmental Management Act and its Hazardous Waste Regulation, which set the province's specific requirements for hazardous-waste generation, storage, transport, and treatment/disposal facility permitting (every province and territory has an analogous instrument). National: the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999, together with its Export and Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material Regulations, which govern the federal aspects of hazardous-waste management, in particular transboundary (interprovincial and international) movement. International: the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1989, in force 1992; Canada is a signatory), which establishes the international framework of prior-informed-consent controls on hazardous-waste exports and imports between countries.
