Solid Waste Diversion and Disposal Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators by Environment and Climate Change Canada: This indicator tracks the amount of solid waste diverted and disposed of in Canada. It tracks progress on the 2022 to 2026 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, supporting the target: By 2030, reduce the amount of waste Canadians send to disposal by 30%, from a 2014 baseline.

Waste Management (WM) 2023 Sustainability report: This report has been prepared in reference to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and is a part of the annual sustainability report series of WM. This report generally covers WM’s sustainability performance for 2022 and, unless otherwise noted, the report boundary includes WM’s wholly-owned operations and majority-owned subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and India.

State of Waste Management in Canada by Giroux Environmental Consulting: Prepared for the Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment. This report contains information which has been prepared for, but not yet approved by, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME). CCME is committed to reflect the highest standards of research and analysis in its publications.

Biennial Waste Management Survey: Waste Diversion, 2022: Statistics Canada has released the results of its biennial Waste Management Survey, containing waste diversion data for 2022.

Solid waste management in Canadian municipalities by the Green Municipal Fund: Expanding responsibility for producers to include the post-consumer stage of their products is a key solution for financial and environmental sustainability in the waste sector. That’s one finding of this Green Municipal Fund (GMF) report highlighting waste sector trends, key factors affecting municipalities’ ability to drive change, and best practices with economic, social and environmental benefits.

Municipal waste generation by the Conference Board of Canada: Canada generates more municipal waste per capita annually than any of its peer countries. Canada earns a “D” grade and ranks in last place. In 2008, Canada generated 777 kg per capita of municipal waste—well above the 17-country average of 578 kg per capita and twice as much as Japan, the top-performing country.

National Waste Characterization Report by Environment and Climate Change Canada: In 2016, Canadians generated approximately 34 million tonnes of municipal solid waste. Of this amount,9 million tonnes (27%) was diverted through material recovery facilities or centralized organics processingoperations (i.e., recycling and composting), and 25 million tonnes (73%) was sent for disposal in landfills,to incineration facilities, for thermal treatment (e.g. energy from waste, gasification) or for residual wasteprocessing (e.g. conversion to an alternative fuel source).1 This national waste characterization study hasbeen undertaken to develop a better understanding of the characterization of Canada’s residual municipalsolid waste (MSW).

Reducing methane emissions from Canada’s municipal solid waste landfills, a discussion paper by Environment and Climate Change Canada: The purpose of this discussion paper is to seek input on proposed objectives of regulations under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA), to reduce methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills and on a number of key questions related to reducing landfill methane emissions.

Technical Document on Municipal Solid Waste Organics Processing by Environment Canada: This Technical Document on Municipal Solid Waste Organics Processing was developed to meet this need by providing science-based, objective and user-friendly information on the various aspects of organic waste management planning and operation for organics processing of different capacities and in different locations. The most applicable and relevant proven composting and anaerobic digestion treatment approaches for implementation in Canada and the considerations applicable to their implementation are also discussed. Treatment technologies still at the research level, that are not yet commercially available, or that have not fully demonstrated technical feasibility in the Canadian context are not covered in this Technical Document.