Share of collected mass recovered (percent)
Provisional. Usable pending approval; a project-proposed concept only by the project that proposed it.
Definition
Recovered mass divided by categorised collected mass in the same scope and reporting period, as a percentage. Recovered mass: the weighed quantities on material offtake and organic treatment records dated in the period whose destination is a recovery destination (recycled, or composted or treated) and whose material category is in a stream the project design declares diverted. Categorised collected mass: waste mass collected less uncategorised mass. Uncategorised mass is in neither side and is reported alongside, as are recovered mass in kg, mass stockpiled and the streams declared diverted. Organic mass with no treatment record is not recovered. The rate is a share of collected waste recovered: not a rate on generated waste, and no claim about what would otherwise have been landfilled. Rolled up by summing kg, never by averaging rates. Kind rate.
purpose
To report the standard’s distinguishing claim: how much of what the service collected demonstrably went to recycling, composting or treatment.
rationale
Collection is not recovery; three dashboard rates disagreed because they counted streams, not destinations, and folded unsorted batches in. Requiring a recorded recovery destination and excluding uncategorised mass gives one rate a verifier can trace to offtake and treatment records.
Classification
- Result level: Outcome
- Outcome domains: Climate mitigation, Resource recovery
- Unit of observation: Weighed quantity
- Activity types: Facility weighing, Material offtake, Organic treatment
- Approval status: Provisional
- Unit of measure:
PERCENT
Collections
- Candidate core indicator set
- Recovery indicators