Kelsey Huffman calls herself "a professional sniffer."
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She's a waste specialist in Sudbury, Ont., tasked with detecting or "sniffing" out foul scents at a municipal landfill.
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Huffman makes weekly rounds of the site, as well as neighbourhoods in the vicinity, to make sure landfill operations aren't posing a problem.
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"Sometimes you can get a little bit of smell from the leaf and yard, but normally it's kind of woody, and it actually smells quite good," Huffman said. "That's not where any issues usually come from."
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Most of the issues come from the disposal area, Huffman said, where most of the waste is collected, and from the area where compost collected from green bins is kept.
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Huffman, who completed a post-secondary program in environmental monitoring, said that the city has authority to stop any operation that is causing smells to waft into the neighbourhood, but she said the air is usually "pretty good."
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"It doesn't normally get too smelly," Huffman said. "Sometimes when you're standing right beside a fresh compost pile that's been baking in the sun, it will smell naturally. It should smell, it is waste."
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"We're pretty close to the landfill and it's just a regular neighbourhood. There's no smells that are out of the ordinary," she said.
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"If anything, you can smell the trees and the flowers."
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