Industrial Non-hazardous Waste Landfills Code of Practice
The Ministry of Environment intends to establish a "code of practice" (Minister's regulation) that addresses industrial non-hazardous waste landfills under provisions of the Environmental Management Act (EMA) and the Waste Discharge Regulation (WDR).
The proposed code of practice would establish province-wide regulations for industrial non-hazardous waste landfill sites. All new industrial landfills, as well as existing landfills currently authorized by permit that require significant expansion, would be required to comply with all relevant provisions of EMA, WDR and the code. Specifically, EMA prohibits the introduction of waste into the environment "in such a manner or quantity as to cause pollution."
The code would apply to all classes of landfills identified in schedules to the code, and initially would apply only to wood waste landfills, associated with either logging operations or wood manufacturing facilities. Such landfills are considered by the Ministry to be a low to medium environmental risk — with activities and discharges to the environment that are appropriate for management and regulation under a code of practice.
The code would be primarily performance-based, and require development of and compliance with a design, operations and closure plan that demonstrates how performance requirements related to registration and record keeping, water quality protection and monitoring, accepted and prohibited wastes, landfill gas and other issues will be met or achieved. The intended content of the proposed code of practice is outlined in the policy intentions paper for consultation below.
Consultation
For information on the consultation process, see the Consultation Information for Codes of Practice and Regulations site. For general information on the development of codes of practice, see the Environmental Management Act (EMA) Codes of Practice and Regulatory Review site.
A summary of all comments received during the consultation process is provided in the  Summary of Consultation Comments document (263 KB) .
Thank you to those who have submitted comments on the posted intentions paper.
Updated: july 2008
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