Dealing with all waste materials, not just hazardous wastes, is a great challenge in this part of the country. Community landfills are not designed or equipped to handle many materials as our landfills in the provinces to the south. This is in part because of limited financial and knowledgeable resources. Collecting these materials and sending them south is not an easy task. It can be collected, but then shipping arrangements by ship or barge needs to be arranged and well planned out. Obstacles to ship hazardous materials include not having local staff trained to handled, package, and prepare the proper paperwork to ship it out. But that is part of what this training program will provide them.
But even with all that, the other issues is finding somewhere to send the stuff that is collected. Once it goes on the barge, it has to have some place to go. The challenge is finding those places that will accept it and handle it properly. Because it is going into other jurisdictions, the shipping process and necessary paperwork must also deal with the regulatory requirements in those other jurisdictions. And in Canada, that can vary from Province to Province.
Aside from the training, one of the great experiences we get out of the training is the opportunity to meet the Inuit people and learn about their culture and way of life in the north. During my walks around town, I stopped a few people grabbed my interest. I asked them if I could take their photograph, and all were not only willing to let me photograph them, but were genuinely happy to do so. So here are a few of the photos that these folks let me take.
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