Recovery rate on generated waste (percent)
Provisional. Usable pending approval; a project-proposed concept only by the project that proposed it.
Definition
Recovered mass in a service area and reporting period divided by the estimated waste generated by the households actively served there: their household-days served times the waste generation rate from a waste characterisation of the same service area, or of one the project design declares representative of it, as a percentage. Computed per service area and stream, never pooled across baselines. The baseline used, its date and its sample size are reported alongside. Kind rate.
purpose
To state recovery against what households generate, the basis on which municipal and funder diversion targets are usually set.
rationale
A share of collected mass rises when collection shrinks to the cleanest streams; dividing by generated waste from a measured baseline rewards capturing more of the waste, not only recovering more of what was collected.
Classification
- Result level: Outcome
- Outcome domains: Resource recovery
- Unit of observation: Characterisation sample
- Activity types: Material offtake, Organic treatment, Waste characterisation
- Approval status: Provisional
- Unit of measure:
PERCENT
Collections
- Recovery indicators
- Waste characterisation module