Making all stakeholders responsible for waste management, reducing landfill waste, recycling or reclaiming as many materials as possible and innovating to find new opportunities are the objectives targeted by the MRC d’Argenteuil’s 2023-2030 Waste Management Plan (PGMR 2023-2030). To that end, twenty-two measures have been identified and detailed.
Consult the MRC d’Argenteuil’s 2023-2030 Waste Management Plan (in French)
Waste management planning is based on the Politique québécoise de gestion des matières résiduelles which aims to create a waste-free society through sound waste management. Its main objective is to eliminate only one material, the ultimate residue. The ultimate residue is that which cannot be treated, from which a recoverable part cannot be extracted, and the pollutant or hazardous nature can’t be reduce.
To achieve this goal the PQGMR includes measures to adress the three main issues in waste management :
- Stop waste of ressources;
- Contribute to the achievement of the Plan d’action sur les changements climatiques and those of the stratégie énergétique du Québec;
- Make all the stakeholders involved in waste management accountable
The PQGMR is accompanied by a five-year plan. The 2019-2024 Action Plan aims to achieve following objectives :
- Reduce the amount of material disposed of per capita to 525 kg or less;
- Recycle 75% of paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, and metal;
- Recycle 60% of organic materials;
- Recycle and reclaim 70% of construction, renovation, and demolition waste.
Finally, any Waste management Plan (PGMR) must take into account the Stratégie de valorisation de la matière organique (SVMO) The objectives of the SVMO are :
- Implement organic matter management on 100% of the territory by 2025;
- Manage organic matter in 100% of industries, businesses and institutions by 2025;
- Recycle or reclaim 70 % of the target organic matter by 2030;
- Reduce GHG emissions by 270 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030.