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  • 1. Household hazardous waste
    Table: 38-10-0155-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Presence of various types of household hazardous waste and disposal methods used in previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 2. Electronic waste
    Table: 38-10-0154-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Presence of various types of household electronic waste (eWaste) and disposal methods used in previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 3. Reusable containers
    Table: 38-10-0156-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Use of various types of reusable containers by households in the previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 4. Plastics in Canada: From production to recycling, 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025033
    Description: This infographic presents the movement of plastic materials in the Canadian economy in 2021, using data from the Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material. It describes the various stages of their life cycle, from production to recycling.
    Release date: 2025-04-22
  • 5. Waste materials diverted, by type and by source, inactive Archived
    Table: 38-10-0138-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2025-04-04
  • 6. Waste materials diverted, by type and by source
    Table: 38-10-0179-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every year. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2025-04-04
  • 7. Canada’s Core Public Infrastructure Survey: asset management practices, solid waste infrastructure, and culture, recreation and sports facilities 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202503526904
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-02-04
  • 8. Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey: Replacement values 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202429536644
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-10-21
  • 9. Disposal of waste, by source
    Table: 38-10-0032-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table displays the disposal of waste by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2024-07-02
  • 10. Stimulants in the wastewater of Canadian cities: provisional results January 2022 to May 2023 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202330527063
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-11-01
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  • 1. Household hazardous waste
    Table: 38-10-0155-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Presence of various types of household hazardous waste and disposal methods used in previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 2. Electronic waste
    Table: 38-10-0154-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Presence of various types of household electronic waste (eWaste) and disposal methods used in previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 3. Reusable containers
    Table: 38-10-0156-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    Use of various types of reusable containers by households in the previous 12 months.

    Release date: 2025-06-09
  • 4. Waste materials diverted, by type and by source, inactive Archived
    Table: 38-10-0138-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2025-04-04
  • 5. Waste materials diverted, by type and by source
    Table: 38-10-0179-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every year. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2025-04-04
  • 6. Disposal of waste, by source
    Table: 38-10-0032-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table displays the disposal of waste by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2024-07-02
  • 7. Inventory of publicly owned solid waste assets, Infrastructure Canada, inactive Archived
    Table: 34-10-0236-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of regionally and municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories.
    Release date: 2022-10-28
  • 8. Inventory of municipally owned solid waste assets, by urban and rural, and population size, Infrastructure Canada, inactive Archived
    Table: 34-10-0237-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural and population size.
    Release date: 2022-10-28
  • 9. Inventory of publicly owned solid waste assets by year of completed construction, Infrastructure Canada, inactive Archived
    Table: 34-10-0238-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of regionally and municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories by year of completed construction. Values are presented in numbers and percentages.
    Release date: 2022-10-28
  • 10. Inventory of publicly owned solid waste assets by year of completed construction, urban and rural, and population size, Infrastructure Canada, inactive Archived
    Table: 34-10-0239-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Year of completed construction of municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural and population size. Values are presented in numbers and percentages.
    Release date: 2022-10-28
Analysis (13)

Analysis (13) (0 to 10 of 13 results)

  • 1. Plastics in Canada: From production to recycling, 2021
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025033
    Description: This infographic presents the movement of plastic materials in the Canadian economy in 2021, using data from the Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material. It describes the various stages of their life cycle, from production to recycling.
    Release date: 2025-04-22
  • 2. Canada’s Core Public Infrastructure Survey: asset management practices, solid waste infrastructure, and culture, recreation and sports facilities 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202503526904
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-02-04
  • 3. Canada's Core Public Infrastructure Survey: Replacement values 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202429536644
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2024-10-21
  • 4. Stimulants in the wastewater of Canadian cities: provisional results January 2022 to May 2023 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202330527063
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-11-01
  • 5. Unravelling the story about household textile and e-waste disposal in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022015
    Description:

    This infographic visually presents information on household disposal methods of textile and e-waste for the years 2017 and 2019. It also presents total household textile and e-waste diverted from landfills or incinerators and total household waste sent to landfills and incinerators for the year 2018. This infographic is based on data from the 2017 and 2019 cycles of the Households and Environment Survey and the 2018 Waste Management Industry Survey.

    Release date: 2022-02-15
  • 6. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202000100006
    Description: As the sixth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. This 2020 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the sixth Sustainable Development Goal in support of clean water and sanitation, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.
    Release date: 2020-10-20
  • 7. Uptake and disposal of compact fluorescent lights by Canadian households Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X201400111907
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study looks at uptake and disposal of compact fluorescent lights by Canadian households using data from the Households and the Environment Survey.

    Release date: 2014-03-19
  • 8. Waste management in Canada Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-201-X201200011679
    Description:

    This analytical article 'Waste management in Canada' gathers together a variety of statistics describing the generation and management of different types of waste. The report starts with an overview of waste generation in Canada (Section 2). The remaining sections cover solid waste (Section 3), wastewater discharges (Section 4), and air emissions (Section 5) in greater detail.

    Release date: 2012-06-05
  • 9. Disposal of household special wastes Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800110539
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Households across the country regularly produce special wastes ranging from dead batteries to old paint containers. This study focuses on four special wastes for which information was collected in the 2006 Households and the Environment Survey' leftover or expired medication, dead batteries, old computer and communication equipment and leftover paint.
    Release date: 2008-03-27
  • 10. Is composting organic waste spreading? Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800110540
    Geography: Canada
    Description: Diverting organic waste is one way of reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills. Materials such as food waste and leaf and yard trimmings are often composted at home using compost bins or they are collected curbside and processed at centralized composting facilities. The study examines composting in Canada using data from the Waste Management Industry Survey and the Households and the Environment Survey.
    Release date: 2008-03-27
Reference (3)

Reference (3) ((3 results))

  • 1. Waste Management Industry Survey: Government Sector
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1736
    Description: The survey provides information on waste management financial and employment characteristics. It also collects information on collection, disposal and recycling quantities reported by municipalities and other public bodies that provide waste management services.
  • 2. Biennial Waste Management Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2009
    Description: This survey collects information that will help Canadians understand the contributions made by waste management industry to Canada's economy and environment.
  • 3. Hazardous Waste Management Industry Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5199
    Description: This survey collects data on the amount of hazardous waste handled by businesses in the Canadian Hazardous Waste Management industry. The data will be used to compile a national-level estimate of the amount of hazardous waste that is processed at Canadian facilities. The data will also be used by Environment Canada to fulfill international reporting requirements under the Basel Convention.

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