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Tracking recycling Pt. 2
I think that tracking and monitoring is one of the most important and sometimes-overlooked part of a successful recycling program. Tracking takes a little bit of effort, but I think the results are well worth it. You need data to show the impacts of your program. You want to be able to say, I did ...
Tracking recycling Pt. 1
I think that tracking is one of the most important and sometimes-overlooked part of a successful recycling program. Tracking takes a little bit of effort, but I think the results are well worth it. You need data to show the impacts of your program. You want to be able to say, I did this and ...
Five days of fixing recycling rates: day 1
In my “Paved with good intentions” post, I touched on some of my concerns with recycling rates. So how do we resolve those issues and create a better working system? Here are some elements that I think any system needs to have • Sub-Categories • A companion per-capita metric • The ability to reconcile waste ...
Strength in numbers
In my last post, I talked about some of the pros and cons of both the “% discards recycled” metric and the “per-capita recycling metric”. One of the biggest problems with recycling rates, and one of the reasons that has led to people to call for their demise has been their misuse. In a previous ...
Understanding metrics
No, I’m not talking about that awkward moment in grade school when someone first tries to explain that the rest of the world has 30 centimeters on a ruler instead of 12 inches. I’m talking about the different metrics that we use to measure and contextualize our recycling data. % Discards Recycled: As I mentioned ...
How do you measure up?
“What’s your recycling rate?” That term has been so misused and misunderstood over the years that my long-time colleague Jerry Powell of Resource Recycling Magazine called for the death of recycling rates in a recent editorial. I feel bad for recycling rates. They have been abused for so long, and now a prominent voice of ...
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