Wet Waste Disposal Strategy

The project aims to find a sustainable solution for the kitchen waste produced by CMH, a backcountry lodge operator in eastern BC. The issue affects many businesses across different sectors and the findings could benefit them as well. CMH has eight lodges with varying occupancy sizes and waste amounts. The lodges are remote, high-altitude, and mostly busy in winter, which makes natural composting difficult and slow. CMH has explored composting, burning, landfilling, and pig-feeding in the past, but none of these methods are ideal for the environment, cost, or energy. The project will use the previous work and some assumptions to compare the impact and workload of each method for each lodge, considering the pre-pandemic guest load. The project will also consider the accessibility and proximity of the lodges, as some of them are on closed logging roads in winter. The project hopes to find the best solution for each lodge and the overall operation.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael McPhee

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mountain Holidays

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

College of the Rockies

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