SWANA Encourages Use of New Metrics to Measure Recycling

From Waste Today, by Adam Redling​

The Solid Waste Association of North America’s (SWANA’s) International Board unanimously approved a new technical policy citing the need for entities to measure recycling progress and encouraging the development of a consistent methodology. 

Although the historic measure for recycling has been weight-based, SWANA, Silver Spring, Maryland, is encouraging the ongoing evaluation of different metrics in order to gain a wholistic and better view of the domestic recycling process, the organization says.

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