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Volume 4, Issue 3
1 September 1991
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal Cover Image for Volume 4, Issue 3
Editors
Lee Parker;
Lee Parker
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James Guthrie
James Guthrie
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Research Article| September 01 1991

Accounting for Waste or Garbage Accounting: Some Thoughts from Non‐accountants Available to Purchase

Bob Laughlin;
Bob Laughlin
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Linda K. Varangu
Linda K. Varangu
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4205
Print ISSN: 1368-0668
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (1991) 4 (3)
https://doi.org/10.1108/09513579110000810

The management of waste is central to any reconsideration of an organisation′s environmental impact. Some Canadian experience in waste management is introduced and some questions this raises for conventional methods of accounting are identified.

Keywords:
Canada, Environment, Waste, Waste disposal, Accounting
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