Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance
Chapter 7 - Monitoring waste reduction initiatives
Summary
If you want to know how successful your waste reduction initiatives have been,
this chapter is for you.
This is the main place where guidance is given on monitoring the impact of activities on washable nappies, school-based awareness programmes and initiatives on unwanted mail. This chapter will help you:
- Understand how to estimate the quantity of disposable nappy waste avoided
- Make use of the Mailing Preference Service to measure uptake - combining this with waste composition data to estimate tonnes of mail avoided
- Use awareness surveys to judge the impact of school-based work
- Make use of school-based tonnage data to assess impact
- Use a pledge-based system combined with participation monitoring to assess the impact of school-based work
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See Also
Annex 1: Library of Survey Questions 5760 kbSubjects in this guide
- Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Monitoring awareness, claimed behaviour and satisfaction
- Chapter 3 - Monitoring scheme usage and participation
- Chapter 4 - Monitoring quantities diverted
- Chapter 5 - Monitoring capture rates
- Chapter 6 - Monitoring contamination levels
- Chapter 7 - Monitoring waste reduction initiatives
- Chapter 8 - Monitoring communication campaigns
