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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.
Atlantic Canada鈥檚 agricultural and aquaculture sectors are highly diversified but face economic challenges as both world markets and government environmental policies continue to shift. Waste management research takes advantage of state-of-the-art facilities and instrumentation to evaluate the environmental impacts of agricultural waste. Graduate 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 waste.
Our research
Additional areas of emphasis
Exploring value-added opportunities for organic wastes through conversion into biomass fuels.
The use of compost as containment systems for oil spills.
The development of commercial bio-fertilizers for use in organic agriculture.聽
Projects and initiatives
Adaptive agriculture
- Impact of land-applied alkaline treated municipal biosolids on agricultural soils in Nova Scotia
- Evaluation of contaminants in surface and subsurface drainage water from land applied聽 treated municipal biosolids
- Linking agro-ecosystem impacts to emerging contaminants from land applied municipal biosolids
- Development of a liquid fish fertilizer for utilization on agricultural crops in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Monitoring of inactivation of Aleutian Mink Disease Virus during composting of mink manure
- Mitigating the impact of mink manure production on water quality in Nova Scotia
- Development of a bioenergy decision support system for Regional Biomass to Biofuel markets in Canada
- Management and Disposal of Specified Risk Materials (SRM) in Nova Scotia
- Using Sea lettuce as a Soil Amendment for Potato Production
- Wool Value Chain Development Manufacturing Study Pilot Project
Municipal, commercial, and industrial
- Value enhancement of municipal organics compost through effective microorganisms and management
- Bio-Products: Development, Testing and Commercialization
- Evaluation of coated gypsum wallboard as a composting additive
Past projects
- Feasibility study on the commercialization opportunities from spent coffee grounds