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Determining the scope of your program will help you identify opportunities for waste reduction. By examining your organization's facilities or key operations, you will become acquainted with your waste streams and better prepared to establish waste reduction goals based on this information.

For more information:

• Selected Goals of WasteWise Partners
  PDF (17 pages, 960 KB)
  This guide provides a sampling of goals and highlights some of the results that partners have achieved by pursuing their goals. You can use the ideas in this guide as a catalyst for developing and expanding your own WasteWise goals.
  
  
• Common Recyclable Materials
  PDF (6 pages, 80 KB)
  This document provides a breakdown of commonly recycled products by material. Learn how to best separate your recyclables to maximize profit, reduce contamination, and identify hot markets.
  
  
• WasteWise Update: The Measure of Success—Calculating Waste Reduction
  PDF (16 pages, 473 KB) | ASCII | About...
  The article on page 3 of this Update will help you think about the question of program scope in more detail by discussing how it affects program implementation and measurement.

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Last Updated: April 12, 2007