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This tool allows you to track your organization's waste prevention,
recycling, and buy recycled activities for one year. It includes
five worksheets, titled "Waste Material," "Waste
Prevention," "Recycling," "Buy Recycled,"
and "Summary." To access each worksheet, click on the
appropriate tab at the bottom. The first worksheet allows you to
select the materials you wish to track and the next three worksheets
require you to input information about your waste prevention, recycling,
and buy recycled activities. The final worksheet summarizes the
cost savings, revenues, and climate benefits associated with your
program. It also includes the information required to complete your
WasteWise Annual Assessment Form. Each worksheet is explained in
further detail below.
Waste Material Worksheet
Waste Prevention Worksheet
Recycling Worksheet
Buy Recycled Worksheet
Summary Worksheet
Waste Material Worksheet
Use this worksheet to enter your waste disposal costs, select materials
targeted by your waste reduction program, and designate how often
you would like to submit information about your waste reduction
activities (weekly or monthly). To complete the worksheet:
- Calculate and record your organization's disposal costs ($/lb)
in the yellow cell. To calculate this figure, use the Records
Examination Worksheet <link to appropriate worksheet> or
the following equation:
disposal costs ($/lb) = (annual waste collection labor costs +
annual waste container costs + annual waste removal costs + annual
tipping fees) / waste disposed annually (lbs).
- Click the gray "Choose Waste Material(s)" button.
- Single click on each material targeted by your waste reduction
program. Most waste prevention and recycling activities focus
on specific materials, such as corrugated, high grade paper, and
glass. The "Waste Prevention" and "Recycling"
tracking worksheets will display only the materials selected during
this step.
- Choose how often how often you would like to submit information
about your waste reduction activities. Click "weekly"
or "monthly."
- Click "Done" to submit your selections.
Waste Prevention Worksheet
Use this worksheet to track your organization's waste prevention
activities by material for one year. To complete the table:
- Type a brief description of the waste prevention activity or
activities targeting each material in the appropriate cells.
- At the end of each week or month, enter the quantity of waste
disposed (excluding waste prevented and materials recycled).
- At the end of each week or month, enter the quantity of waste
prevented (lbs) by material. For more information about measuring
waste prevention activities, refer to the WasteWise Update on
measurement. <link to Measure of Success—Calculating Waste
Reduction>
- The computer uses the following calculation to automatically
calculate avoided disposal costs for each material:
avoided disposal costs ($) = quantity prevented (lbs) x disposal
costs ($/lb)
- If applicable, enter the avoided purchasing costs. To calculate
avoided purchasing costs, use the following equation:
avoided purchasing costs ($) = quantity prevented (units) x
cost per unit ($)
- If applicable, enter revenues generated. Your organization
can generate revenues if it sells a reusable item rather than
throwing it away.
Recycling Worksheet
Use this worksheet to track your organization's recycling activities
by material for one year. To complete the table:
Instructions:
- Each week or month, enter the quantity recycled by material.
This information can be obtained from your recycling hauler or
by weighing recyclable materials on-site. For more information
on weighing your materials, refer to the How
to Conduct a Waste Sort page.
- If applicable, enter revenue generated from selling recyclable
materials.
- The computer uses the following calculation to automatically
calculate avoided disposal costs for each material:
avoided disposal costs ($) = quantity recycled (lbs) x disposal
costs ($/lb)
Buy Recycled Worksheet
Use this table to track your organization's recycled content purchases.
To complete the table:
- Each time a recycled content product is purchased, enter the
product/material purchased, current percent recycled content,
previous percent recycled content, amount purchased, and amount
spent.
Summary Worksheet
This worksheet includes two tables that summarize the economic
and environmental benefits of your waste prevention, recycling,
and buy recycled activities. After obtaining a year's worth of data:
- Transfer information highlighted in yellow to your WasteWise
Annual Assessment Form.
- For each material you targeted, transfer pounds prevented,
waste prevention activities, pounds recycled, and recycling
activities to your WasteWise Annual Assessment Form.
- Transfer the total year-to-date avoided disposal costs,
year-to-date revenues from waste prevention, year-to-date
revenues from recycling, and year-to-date avoided purchasing
costs to your WasteWise Annual Assessment Form. Do not divide
these values out by material. Use the totals computed in the
last row of the first table.
- For each recycled content purchase, transfer the product/material
purchased, current recycled content percent, previous recycled
content percent, and amount purchased (lbs) to your WasteWise
Annual Assessment Form.
- Use the other information to evaluate the economic and climate
benefits of your waste reduction and buy recycled program.
Key:
Year-to-date avoided disposal costs sums the disposal
costs avoided by preventing and recycling each material.
Year-to-date revenues from waste prevention sums the
revenues generated from waste prevention (by material).
Year-to-date revenues from recycling sums the revenues generated
from recycling (by material).
Total year-to-date revenues and avoided purchasing costs
adds year-to-date revenues to avoided purchasing costs for each
material.
Gross year-to-date waste reduction savings adds avoided
disposal costs to year-to-date revenues and avoided purchasing
costs for each material.
30 year TOTAL GHG emission reductions from waste prevention
(MTCE) measures the greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved
by your organization's waste prevention activities for each
material in metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE). One million
MTCE is equivalent to the emissions of 750,000 cars each traveling
11,000 miles at 20 miles per gallon.
30 year TOTAL GHG emission reductions from recycling (MTCE)
measures the greenhouse gas emission reductions achieved by
your organization's recycling activities for each material in
metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE). One million MTCE is
equivalent to the emissions of 750,000 cars each traveling 11,000
miles at 20 miles per gallon.
Diversion Rate = (quantity of waste prevented + quantity
of materials recycled) / (quantity of waste disposed + quantity
of waste prevented + quantity of materials recycled)
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