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Waste reduction offers a number of environmental benefits, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and in the consumption of natural resources and energy. To calculate how your WasteWise efforts affect climate change, EPA developed the WAste Reduction Model (WARM).

For more information:

• WasteWise Update: The Measure of Success—Calculating Waste Reduction
  PDF (16 pages, 1,671 KB)
  Pages 13 and 15 discuss the impacts of waste reduction upon the environment. In addition to providing an overview of WARM, the Update offers sample environmental conversions.
  
  
• Climate Change and Waste Web site
  This Web site provides useful information on the relationship between solid waste and climate change. Among the tools offered, organizations can utilize WARM to calculate greenhouse gas emissions reductions from various waste reduction activities.
  
  
• Environmental Factoids
  WasteWise has collected fun factoids to make it easier for partners to measure waste reduction benefits in terms of energy and resource savings.
  

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Last Updated: January 17, 2006