Responses to solid waste
Student worksheet 3 answers

1. Waste management is the responsibility of the local government or waste management boards or commissions who coordinate these services.
2. Local waste services are funded through property taxes, transfers from other governments and user fees.
3. 1. Nova Scotia.
   2. Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan.
   3. The provinces whose waste management expenditures as a total share of municipal expenditure are higher divert a higher percentage of their generated waste.
4. Municipalities are encouraging their citizens to produce less waste by: implementing regulatory instruments such as bag limits, applying economic instruments such as user pay programs and by encouraging residents to recycle and compost.
5. Answers will vary.
6. User-pay programs require residents to pay for waste collection based on the volume of waste materials disposed of, rather than as a flat fee rolled into property taxes. Economists argue that this system helps reduce generation of garbage, because a charge presents a financial incentive to produce less waste. In Orillia, Ontario the user-pay program helped increase recycling by 31 percent.
7. Some notable waste management programs in Canada are: Edmonton, Alberta, Prince Edward Island, and Guelph, Ontario. Answers will vary.
8. E-Waste is electronics waste such as discarded computers, televisions, stereos and cell phones. Answers will vary.
9. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy under which producers accept significant financial or physical responsibility for the treatment or disposal of products which consumers have finished. EPR programs have reduced waste through deposit return systems and advance disposal fees.
10. Answers will vary. Discuss as a class.
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