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Waste recycling rate
Helps managers answer: To what extent are we recovering our waste for reuse or recycling?
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Waste reduction rate
Helps managers answer: To what extent are we minimising the amount of waste we generate?
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Answer the performance question: “To what extent are we recovering our waste for reuse or recycling?”
Answer the performance question: “To what extent are we minimising the amount of waste we generate?”
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Waste recycling rate
- Start with the few material streams that account for most mass, cost or impact. Reconcile supplier and recycler records, disclose estimates and improve measurement over time rather than delaying action while pursuing false precision.
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- Do not celebrate a rising recycling rate if total waste is increasing, material is downcycled or reported recycling is not verified at the final destination. Prevention and absolute impact remain the higher priorities.
Waste reduction rate
- Measure waste intensity at the level where people can act—often a product, line or process—and express the physical reduction and its full avoided cost. A saving of 1,000 tonnes is more useful when its material, processing, capacity and disposal effects are visible.
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- Do not narrow the boundary until the KPI improves. Include packaging, rework, outsourced losses and relevant stock changes, and keep the output basis comparable so waste is not merely shifted to another process or supplier.
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