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Demonstrating the financial impact of your waste reduction achievements can go a long way toward garnering management support for your organization's program. Financial benefits of waste reduction can result from avoided waste removal costs, avoided purchasing costs, and increased operational efficiency.

For more information:

• WasteWise Update: The Measure of Success—Calculating Waste Reduction
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  Pages 12 and 14 highlight areas in which you might benefit from reducing waste. Examples of WasteWise Partner success stories are also provided.
  
  
• Estimating Waste Removal Costs
  PDF (2 pages, 65 KB)
  WasteWise prepared this worksheet to help your organization evaluate its current waste removal costs and develop a baseline for future cost comparisons.
  
  
• Converting Waste Reduction Results into Cost Savings
  PDF (4 pages, 84 KB)
  The success of your WasteWise program can be gauged not only by the amount of waste you reduce, but also by the cost savings you experience. This guide will help you quantify cost savings resulting from avoided waste removal costs, avoided purchasing costs, and revenues received from collected recyclables or exchanged materials.

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Last Updated: April 11, 2007