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Innovative Waste Management

The research program

The Waste Management Research program, working out of the Department of Engineering on the Agricultural Campus, focuses on environmental sustainability and value-addition approaches to agricultural and non-agricultural by-products.Ìý

Atlantic Canada’s agricultural and aquaculture sectors are highly diversified but face economic challenges as both world markets and government environmental policies continue to shift.ÌýWaste management research takes advantage of state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation to evaluate the environmental impacts of agricultural wastes.ÌýGraduate and undergraduate students join a collaborative network of researchers at the Faculty of Agriculture and around the globe to tackle the challenges of managing organic wastes.

Recent research initiatives have examined

  • the impact of livestock manure storage conditions on greenhouse gas emissions;
  • the monitoring of pharmaceuticals in soils and water from land applied municipal bio-solids;
  • and the composting of agricultural and non-agricultural organic by-products.

Additional areas of emphasis include exploring value-added opportunities for organic wastes through conversion into biomass fuels; the use of composts as containment systems for oil spills; and the development of commercial bio-fertilizers for use in organic agriculture.

Current projects

Adaptive Agriculture

Municipal/Institutional/Commercial/Industrial

Previous Projects

 

Lead researcher

Dr. Gordon W. Price
Assistant Professor and Innovative Waste Management Research Chair

Phone: (902) 896-2461
Fax: (902) 893-1859
Office: Cox 28
Email: gprice@dal.ca