Top five

Stats

P R E S E N T E D B YSOURCES:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16f0023x/16f0023x2013001-eng.pdfhttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16-201-x/2012000/part-partie4-eng.htmhttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16f0023x/2013001/part-partie1-eng.htmhttp://www.waste-management-world.com/articles/2005/09/a-dangerous-business.htmlhttp://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/16-201-x/2012000/part-partie2-eng.htm

AUGUST 2014 WASTE MANAGEMENT

struck by vehicles

Waste management

potential hazards include

crushed by equipmenthepatitis & other infections

is one of the most

dangerous industrial activities

25 million tonnesof non-hazardous wastewere disposed in Canada in 2010

residential waste decreasedby 1% to 9.3 million tonnesnon-residential waste decreasedby 6% to 15.6 million tonnesin Canada between 2008 and 2010

there are over

32,000 full-time workersin the waste management industry

Operating revenues for businessesin the waste management industry

in Canada totalled almost

$6.0 billionin 2010

Canada's oil sands industryis the largest solid waste producer

in Canada

which generated

645 million tonnes of tailingsfrom surface mining operations

in 2008