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Having established the scope of your organization's waste reduction
program, the next step for the waste reduction team is to conduct
a waste assessment. A waste assessment (sometimes referred to as
a waste audit) is a systematic review of a facility and its operations
to quantify waste generation and identify management practices.
Waste assessment data can provide your team with a much greater
understanding of the types and amounts of waste your organization
generates. Specifically, a waste assessment serves the following
purposes:
- Identifies waste generated at the facility as well as current
purchasing and management practices.
- Examines current waste reduction practices and assesses their
effectiveness.
- Identifies the areas and materials in which waste reduction
efforts will be most effective.
- Establishes a baseline for measuring future progress of waste
reduction efforts.
- Facilitates completion of the WasteWise
Assessment Form - Baseline Data.
For more information:
- Key Questions for Specific Function Areas
PDF (2 pages, 48 KB)
This page provides a description of key items to look for when
assessing specific function areas.
- Waste Assessment Approaches
Learn about three common approaches to conducting a waste assessment—records
examinations, facility walk-throughs, and waste sorts. Our user-friendly
worksheets will help you perform your own waste assessment and
analyze your data for easy interpretation. This information will
assist you with gathering your baseline data that should be submitted
to WasteWise within two months of joining the program.
- WasteWise Update: The Measure of Success—Calculating
Waste Reduction
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(16 pages, 473 KB) | ASCII
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Page 4 describes sources of data for baseline calculation, and
examines the strengths and limitation of each source. Page 6 briefly
discusses some general consideration in baseline development.
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