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After conducting a waste assessment, use the information to list, analyze, and choose appropriate waste reduction activities for your organization. Consider holding a brainstorming session to identify potential waste prevention and recycling activities. List your most promising options and evaluate them in terms of economic and operational feasibility.

When analyzing and selecting specific options, focus first on waste prevention, which will enable your organization to eliminate waste at the source. Next, evaluate recycling options to better manage waste that cannot be prevented. Before collecting recyclable materials, be sure to identify markets for them. Finally, examine opportunities to buy or manufacture recycled content products. WasteWise has developed the following tools to assist you with the evaluation process.

For more information:

• Selected Goals of WasteWise Partners
  PDF (17 pages, 108 KB)
  This document lists potential waste reduction goals by operation area.
  
  
• Screening Criteria
  This page lists criteria that your organization can use to quickly screen potential waste reduction activities before conducting a detailed evaluation of promising options.
  
  
• Economic and Operational Feasibility
  This page will enable you to examine more closely the potential waste reduction options that passed your initial screening. It contains a list of questions to help you determine the feasibility of each option and a spreadsheet that estimates annual savings and payback period.
  
  
• Find a Market for Your Recyclables
  When launching or expanding a recycling program, it is important to consider markets for your materials. Additionally, when meeting with recycling companies interested in purchasing your materials, a number of key issues should be discussed.
  

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Last Updated: January 17, 2006