Municipal Solid Waste
The Landfill Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste document addresses the siting, design, operation and closure of three classifications of landfills:
- sanitary landfills;
- modified sanitary landfills; and
- selected waste landfills.
The Landfill Gas Management Regulation establishes province-wide criteria for landfill gas capture from municipal solid waste landfills. The regulation focuses on greenhouse gas emission reductions from landfills with the objective of maximizing reductions of landfill gas emissions and identifying potential opportunities to increase landfill gas recovery.
The regulation phases in new requirements for landfill gas capture that take into account economic and technical feasibility requirements and associated implications for landfill owners.
The procedure and report format for the landfill gas generation assessment from municipal solid waste landfills in BC are provided in the Landfill Gas Generation Assessment Procedure Guidance documents. The guidance documents consist of the text document Landfill Gas Generation Assessment Procedure Guidance Report (PDF/320 KB) and Landfill Gas Generation Estimation Tool. This tool accompanies the guidance document and provides a template for data output, automatically performs required calculations, and provides a data output summary.
The guidelines below are intended to assist landfill owners and operators in the design and implementation of an environmental monitoring program as required by section 7.15 of the Landfill Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste. Effective monitoring programs will enable landfill operators to show that they meet the performance criteria outlined in the Landfill Criteria.
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Last Modified on September 10, 2010
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