How is the statewide per capita disposal rate calculation different than the old diversion rate system?
Statewide goal measurement from 1995 through 2006 used population, employment, and inflation-adjusted taxable sales to estimate waste generation tons for each measurement year. This waste generation amount was compared to reported disposal tons to calculate an estimated diversion rate. California’s per capita (per resident or per employee) disposal measurement system (SB 1016, Wiggins, Chapter 343, Statutes of 2008) is simpler and faster than the old method, because it now focuses only on disposal and population, two readily available factors. In either the old method or the new method, reported disposal is the metric, so reductions in disposal drive increases in diversion rates. In the old method, population, employment, and taxable sales were all used to estimate annual generation, which was the benchmark against which disposal was measured. The relative weighting was population (50 percent), employment (25 percent) and inflation corrected taxable sales (25 percent), so population ha
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- In 2007, the statewide diversion rate under the "old" goal measurement system was 58 percent, but the diversion rate under SB 1016 was 54 percent. Why is there a 4 percent difference?
- How has the statewide diversion rate calculation changed under the new system?
- What was the latest statewide per capita disposal rate?
