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Reflections for a New Year
It’s that time of year again. Time for reflection on the past year and resolutions about the year to come. As you reflect, what would you change about your recycling program or sustainable materials management efforts? Where are you? I think the first assessment is to reflect on where you are in your program’s development. ...
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 ...
Paved with good intentions
So how did we get here? As I noted in my last couple of posts, recycling rates do have value as a benchmarking tool. So how did we get to a point where folks are decrying recycling rates and calling for their end? This is really a case of the road to Hell being paved ...
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 ...
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