Metrics
Reducing Food Waste
Who or what are you feeding with your dining dollars? Perhaps focusing on the answer to that question will help you meet your foodservice sustainability goals.
November 13, 2018
Metrics
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Education
How Do Your Sustainability Efforts Contribute To Student Recruitment?
Imagine you are a wide-eyed 18-year-old presented with one of the first major decisions of your life. What makes you choose one campus over another?
July 30, 2018
Metrics
The Benchmarking Report
How am I doing? At some point, you have to ask yourself that question. Maybe it’s to plot a strategic direction. Maybe it is part of a benefit-cost analysis. Maybe it is to validate the efforts of those who have participated in or supported your recycling program. But, whatever the reason, at some point you have to ask yourself how you are doing. And like any question, the answer often depends on your perspective.
February 6, 2017
Metrics
Measuring Net Improvements
We talk a lot in absolute terms: “zero waste,” “zero emissions.” But what do we really mean? Are we talking about net improvements, or are we merely transferring problems?
March 20, 2014
Best Practices
Measuring Your Recycling Rate: Strength in Numbers
In my last post, I talked about some of the pros and cons of both the “% discards recycled” metric and the “per-capita recycling metric”. One of the biggest problems with recycling rates, and one of the reasons that has led to people to call for their demise has been their misuse.
November 8, 2011
Best Practices
Measuring Your Recycling Rate: Understanding Metrics
I’m talking about the different metrics that we use to measure and contextualize our recycling data.
November 1, 2011
Best Practices
Measuring Your Recycling Rate: How Do You Measure Up?
“What’s your recycling rate?” That term has been so misused and misunderstood over the years that my long-time colleague Jerry Powell of Resource Recycling Magazine called for the death of recycling rates in a recent editorial.
October 27, 2011
