Municipal Waste Data Monitoring and Reporting: Interim Guidelines

3 INTERIM GUIDELINES
3.1 TERMINOLOGY
A wide variety of definitions and terminologies are used in the waste industry
and quite often the same term has more than one definition depending on the
context in which it is used. Annex C provides a list of the waste management
terminologies that are relevant to this project.
The definitions that govern the determination of the KPIs and the formulae for
calculating the values are described in Annex D.
3.2 METHODOLOGY
This section of the report provides a step-by-step guide to the development of
Data Monitoring and Reporting procedures. The methodology is summarised
in Figure 3.1 below.
Figure 3.1 Flowchart for waste data monitoring and reporting
Data Input
Review
Programme
Step 1 – Appoint/Nominate a Data Reporting Officer
Step 2 - Identify Waste Collection and Waste Processing
Streams and the data generated
Step 3 - Data Measurement and Recording
Develop Database – data collection and validation
Step 4 - WMP Targets: Critical Paths, Trigger Points and
Contingency Plans
Step 5 - Calculate KPIs: Quarterly Reports and Annual
Performance Review
Collection Streams
Processing Streams
Weight conversion
factors
Data Recording
Forms
Quarterly Reports
Annual Performance
Review Report
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