Thanks.
>Thanks for the additional info. on NYC. As to measuring participation
>rates, some communities take the weekly set-out rate (or bi-weekly rate)
>and multiple by some factor greater than 1.0 to estimate a participation
>rate, since some folks don't set out their recyclables every week. To
>get this factor accurately, one has to keep good address/pick-up records
>in rep. neighborhoods for a while then derive the factor.
>
How do you get this from tenants in apartment buildings?
>Set-out rates can easily be kept by just having the crews hit a counter
>every time they pick up a container -- if they pick up 350 containers on
>a 1,000 home route, the set-out rate is 35% and participation rate is higher.
>(If folks set out their container every other week, on average, and pick-up
>service is weekly, then participation rate in this exa. would be 70%)
>
>The other way to measure is just to compare recyclable to refuse weights
>by route.
>
This is diversion rate, not participation, right?
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