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Conduct a Waste Sort
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A waste sort involves the physical collection, sorting, and weighing of a representative sample of your organization's waste. A waste sort will enable the team to identify and quantify the components of the waste stream. Depending on your needs, a waste sort can focus on the entire organization's waste or target certain functional areas or departments. Some organizations choose to assemble and measure one day's worth of waste. Others choose to assemble a portion of the waste from each department for measuring. However you choose to structure the waste sort, the team should consider whether waste generation varies significantly enough from one day to the next to distort results. Multi-day sampling provides a more accurate representation of your organization's waste generation. The team will also need to determine which waste categories to quantify. Typically, the major components of an organization's waste stream include paper, plastic, glass, metal, and organic material such as yard trimmings and food scraps. If possible, the team should strive to separate and measure the waste sample as completely as possible. These measurements will be useful when determining which materials can be exchanged, reused, sold, or recycled.
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