Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 410-421Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2006.08.016
Keywords
solid waste policy; source reduction; pollution prevention; landfill recycling; waste management
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In 1989 Canada established a national goal; divert 50 percent of the nation's municipal solid waste from disposal by 2000. The province of Nova Scotia was the first and only province to achieve this goal. In the early 1990s, Nova Scotia relied on substandard land-based disposal, incineration. and open burning. Pollution prevention was minimal. In 1995, Nova Scotia adopted a comprehensive, province-wide strategy based on pollution prevention to fundamentally change its historical approach and to achieve the diversion goal. The strategy has been effective, has achieved substantial environmental benefits, and program costs are comparable to other North American systems. This paper examines and analyzes the strategy and its cur-rent construct to assess whether the Nova Scotia strategy is a model program worthy of consideration at national and other sub-national levels. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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