Has anyone found baseline data for amount of recycling generated in an office? To fill out the sample narrative provided in the Documentation Toolkit I have been looking for baseline numbers for recycling generated in an office (specifically a call center), such as pounds per employee per day. The CalRecycle website only seems to have data from the 1990's (http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/wastechar/WasteGenRates/Commercial.htm) and I am having a hard time finding another measured data on the amount of recycling or waste produced.
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Karen Joslin
principalJoslin Consulting
216 thumbs up
November 5, 2012 - 2:11 pm
Yes the CalREcycle and other sources all use weight now - I remember in LEED v2 systems we had info on volumes broken down by all kinds of users like 1.1 cu ft paper/person/week. But I cannot locate my old reference materials ARGH! And the reviewer doesn't seem to see all the empty space in my hoteling office location available for future recyclable storage. The reviewer requests have become pretty frustrating on this subject given that we don't even have to provide the service...