Waste Characterization
Develop cost-effective materials management plans and system improvements by understanding your system materials.
You need an accurate understanding of your waste, recycling, and reuse streams to create impact.
We know a systems approach is necessary for successful programming in your community. Understanding your system’s waste characterization is an important part of making improvements and changes. For nearly four decades, we have actively worked alongside our clients to design and conduct waste characterizations--from full characterizations to bale audits.
We ask the right questions, proceed efficiently, and find the potential in the patterns we see in waste characterizations.
Our passionate team of strategists, engineers, economists, technical analysts, policy experts, and communications specialists is committed to delivering comprehensive services, including waste characterizations that will help meet your goals. Waste characterization is a complex and demanding undertaking that our team is dedicated to carrying out. We begin with having a thorough understanding of your goals. Then, we create a statistically informed study design that is implemented with precise coordination among team members. We rigorously adhere to quality standards and perform expert analysis for our clients along the way. At RRS, we follow ASTM standards and collaborate with clients to establish a methodology that guarantees statistically significant results and collects the necessary data to formulate recommendations and inform plan and program implementation. We can provide methodological approaches, materials characterization studies, waste audits, MRF audits, bale audits, and other characterization studies to create real change for your organization.
