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Statistics Canada, Waste Management Industry Survey: Business and Government Sectors, Catalogue no. 16F0023X, various issues.
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Environment Canada, 2010, Municipal Solid Waste and Greenhouse Gases, www.ec.gc.ca/gdd-mw/default.asp?lang=En&n=6F92E701-1 (accessed September 30, 2011).
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El-Fadel, M., A.N. Findikakis and J.O. Leckie, 1997, "Environmental Impacts of Solid Waste Landfilling,"Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 50, no. 1, pages 1 to 25.
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Environment Canada, 2011, National Inventory Report 1990-2009: Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Canada, Catalogue no. En81-4/2009E-PDF.
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Landfill Gas Industry Alliance, n.d. (no date), What is Landfill Gas?,www.lfgindustry.org/Landfill.asp (accessed September 30, 2011).
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Environment Canada, 2011, National Inventory Report 1990-2009: Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Canada - Executive Summary, Catalogue no. En81-4/1-2009E-PDF.
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Citizens' Clearinghouse on Waste Management, 2003, Overview of Municipal Waste Incineration, www.citizenswasteinfo.org/A559CA/ccwm.nsf/5155d8f53ce25d2785256cc300567828/844d66e71f3e8b7685256cf50065bb7b?OpenDocument (accessed October 6, 2011).
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Statistics Canada, 2005, "Solid waste in Canada,"Human Activity and the Environment, Catalogue no. 16-201-X.
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Environment Canada, Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division, 2011, National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) Downloadable Datasets, www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=en&n=0EC58C98- (accessed December 6, 2011).
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Environment Canada, 2010, Technical Document for Batch Waste Incineration, www.ec.gc.ca/gdd-mw/default.asp?lang=En&n=B8DA5596-1 (accessed October 6, 2011).
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Environment Canada, 2010, Technical Document for Batch Waste Incineration, www.ec.gc.ca/gdd-mw/default.asp?lang=En&n=B8DA5596-1 (accessed October 6, 2011).
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Canadian Energy-From-Waste-Coalition, 2010, The State of EFW in Canada: An Overview of Policy Options and Political Challenges, Presentation to the Waste-To-Energy Research & Technology Council Bi-Annual Meeting, Columbia University, New York, October 7 and 8, 2010, www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/meet2010/Proceedings/presentations/ FODEN.pdf (accessed January 19, 2012).
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Compost Council of Canada, 2010, 25 Questions and Answers about Composting, www.compost.org/English/qna.html#section1 (accessed September 30, 2011).
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Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 2009, Getting to 50% and Beyond: Waste Diversion Success Stories from Canadian Municipalities, www.fcm.ca/gmf (accessed July 18, 2011).
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Organic materials includes waste managed at centralized facilities and does not include backyard composting.
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Not including car batteries.
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Statistics Canada, 2010, Spending Patterns in Canada, 2009, Catalogue no. 62-202-X.
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Encorp Pacific, 2011, Electronics Recycling FAQ's for Consumers, www.return-it.ca/electronics/faqs/elec-consumer/ (accessed September 30, 2011).
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Electronics Product Stewardship Canada, n.d. (no date), Electronics Product Stewardship Canada, www.epsc.ca/ (accessed September 30, 2011).
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Information on Canada's radioactive waste is gathered by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office and other agencies. Data for the radioactive waste inventory is grouped into three broad categories: nuclear fuel waste, low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, and uranium mining and milling waste. For planning purposes the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office also projects waste inventories where possible.
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Environment Canada, 2012, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Annual Report for April 2010 to March 2011, Catalogue no. En81-3/2011E, www.ec.gc.ca/ceparegistry (accessed March 16, 2012).
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Environment Canada, 2012, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 Annual Report for April 2010 to March 2011, Catalogue no. En81-3/2011E, www.ec.gc.ca/ceparegistry (accessed March 16, 2012).
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For the purposes of this article, manure consists of livestock feces and urine.
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United Nations Statistics Division, 2010, Handbook of National Accounting: Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting 2003 (SEEA), http://unstats.un.org/unsd/envaccounting/seea.asp (accessed April 28, 2010).
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