ASTSWMO Presentation Kansas City Missouri, August 2011

1. Plan for Measurement ASTSWMO Solid Waste Manager’s Meeting Kansas City, Missouri August 9, 2011

2. Transition and Evolution

4. April 2009 – First Meeting in Chattanooga, TN

5. June 2009 – Atlanta, Georgia

6. October 2009 – Atlanta, Georgia – Region 4 Meeting

7. March 2010 – Chattanooga, TN – Work Group

8. April 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN – Work Group

9. May 2010 – Go-To-Meeting Planning Segment Complete

10. June 2010 – PlanImplementation – Emerge Knowledge Design

11. March 2011 – Soft Go-Live

13. Identify areas of significant differences in data reporting;

14. Write a regional strategy;

15. Coordinate a measurement strategy across the Region for measurement/reporting of waste reduction and recycling data;

18. Aggregation by Type of Commodity Other Fiber/Paper Plastics Metals Glass

19. Resource Review – October 2009 Biocycle – Nora Goldstein Bottom Up Methodology Information from States Tonnage Based “Franklin Report” – Hope Pillsbury Top Down Methodology Information from many sources (primarily industry) Percentage Based

20. Important Considerations Maintain the integrity of existing state programs Statutes and regulations are different from state to state. Definitions are different from state to state Even with model law legislation, legislatively negotiated revisions sometimes have significant changes. Exposure to other state’s information would help push Region towards standardization through the sharing of ideas, data, and benchmarking made simple by an Internet based system Double counting – how do we prevent this?

21. Benefits of Project Maintains the integrity of each state’s programs Ability to easily look across the borders Real time reporting Propriety of information protected Provides aggregated information to private sector partners

22. Simplicity is Key The key to the entire project is aggregation Aggregation is the method of pulling material together How will we aggregate materials? Two choices: Lumping or Splitting Each state has its own method of labeling Leverage existing collection methods Survey the States Materials are the same, its how we label and lump them together

23. Survey

24. Aggregation Benefits Aggregation automatically occurs at several levels Commodity By Sector By Government Aggregation allows for: Better Filtering of Data Improved Real Time Reporting Quick and Efficient Data Mining Benchmarking across commodities, sectors or by governmental level Projections and Trending

25. Additional Benefits of Project Aggregation allows for an immediate “apples to apples” comparisons Methodology maintains the integrity and data ownership of programs within the hierarchy of participants Benchmarking materials and ability to see program progress across borders Naturally moves participants to more consistency in region by sharing data real time. Reporting and data mining

26. State Benefits Improves data request response times for: Legislature Policy makers General Public Research Statewide dashboard for report submission tracking Improves review quality and efficiency Canned and ad hoc reporting

27. State Benefits Ease and simplicity of report submission Can help with proprietary information collection Expandable Real time user help Legacy data is easily compared with current submissions

28. State Benefits Temporary logins with read only ability User friendly Improves uniformity of data, reduces error rate Web widgets Power of Web 2.0 applications Subscription based not an application that needs support Projections and trending

29. State Benefits Only need Internet capable PC with Browser Eliminate resident program version issues Author and time stamp of all data Electronic signature of data Very cost effective-Saved Tennessee about $75,000 per year in database creation and management Cut review time of reporting by 80% Very popular with our local governments

30. Local Government Benefits Free high performance, easy to use data management tool Improved materials reporting Useful knowledge base, data retrieval and analysis tools, and reports Linked to MyEcoville, EcoPoint, & EcoProfile for public education and outreach promoting program goals

31. Local Government Benefits No software support Eliminates concern of version level of database, spreadsheet or other reporting programs Assists in regional cooperation efforts Data can be used to help promote local government resources Real time assistance

32. Biggest Benefits to Local Governments Free access and usage Easy to use Low maintenance Powerful tool Public interface Collect their needed information from industry, institutions, etc. (same benefits as state level)

33. Key Partners:

34. Larry Christley, Manager Planning and Financial Assistance Sections Division of Solid Waste Management Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation 401 Church Street, 5th Floor Nashville, TN 37243-1535 Direct Line: 615-532-0744 Fax: 615-532-0886 Email: larry.christley@tn.gov Website: www.tdec.net/swm/prwr