My project has decided not to pursue any source separation and will only use commingled waste. They will of course forgo the credit. But I am confused about how to structure the plan to talk about separate waste streams when the intent is to commingle everything. Do you simply identify five waste streams and your guesstimate about how much each will contribute to the total waste, indicate no ADC or Hazardous Waste will be included, and then say you're going to commingle?
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Afogreen Build
www.afogreenbuild.comGreen Building Consultant
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September 21, 2020 - 12:13 pm
Dear Michelle,
The project needs to have at least five materials targetted for diversion.
Michelle Rosenberger
PartnerArchEcology
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September 21, 2020 - 12:42 pm
Thanks for the response. All the materials are targeted for diversion, but they will all be commingled in the implementation. So none of them will be source separated on site. It just seems counter intuitive to talk about them in the plan as if they are separate waste streams when they will all leave the site as one commingled waste stream. I guess it's no different than plans of the past, except we will be adding the supposed percentages of total waste to five of the materials.