Hi
all,
We don’t have very
good data collection in Colorado, but every time
someone tries to figure the wasting rates along the
Front
Range (where everyone
lives) the per capita rates are always up much higher than the EPA 4.4 lb rate
… how confident are we with the EPA rate?
Eric
Eric
Lombardi
Executive
Director
EcoCycle,
Inc
Boulder,
CO
www.ecocycle.org
303-444-6634
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From:
owner-greenyes@grrn.org [mailto:owner-greenyes@grrn.org] On Behalf Of Justin Stockdale
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:35
AM
To: Helen
Spiegelman
Cc:
GreenYes
Subject: Re:
[GreenYes] Landfill Tipping Fees
I can't give any clues to what is
happening in VA, but it is good to know, or at least suspect that New Mexico
is not the only state posting numbers over 8 pounds per person per day.
Justin Stockdale
Helen Spiegelman wrote:
At 11:27 AM 04/10/2002 -0400,
Terri quoted:
21,796,507 tons of solid waste
were received at
Virginia's permitted solid waste management facilities
during calendar
year 2000. Of this total,
17,324,961 tons originated in the
Commonwealth,
VA's population in 2000 was 7,078,515, working out
to a waste generation rate of 2.45 tons per capita, or 13.4 pounds per day.
According to the report 2/3 of this was MSW, amounting to 8.85 pounds per
day. Compare this to the national average percapita generation of municipal
solid waste in 1997 reported by EPA (Characterization update) of 4.44 pounds
per person per day. Please check my numbers. If they're right, does anyone
have any ideas about this?
Helen.