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Notes

• Bulk Waste is excluded from the calculator and storage for this should be provided for commercial and residential occupancies.
• Commercial calculator does not account for streams which may or may not be generated depending on occupancy such as e-waste, textiles, grease, oil, industrial waste. Storage should be provided for  these additional streams as relevant.
• Strongly recommended equipment is always at double the suggested equipment threshold
• Container recommendations and volume equipment for residential occupancies are based on DSNY rules
• Container and bin sizes are based on the infographics (‘Waste Bins in Buildings’ and ‘20-40 cu yd containers and 1-8 cu yd containers’ and in the Zero Waste Design Guidelines
• Area taken up by bags stacked up is assumed to be similar to the volume/SF as tilt trucks or 64 gallon wheeled bins, at 0.05 cu yd / sq ft
• When a baler is used for MGP, we have not accounted for the separate storage for glass required
• *If compostable dishware is used then the volume of organic waste will be much larger than calculated. With large volumes a 35 cu yd compactor should be considered.
• ** This is the residual  organic waste that can’t go in the equipment
• *** For residential occupancies a vertical compactor is recommended over 12 units per code

References

Bramidan, “Balers,” http://www.bramidan.us/Products/Vertical-balers/B-series/Product/B4.aspx#technicaldata

CalRecycle, “2014 Generator-Based Characterization of Commercial Sector Disposal and Diversion in California,” September 10, 2015, http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/publications/Documents/1543/20151543.pdf

City of New York, Department of Sanitation, “2013 NYC Curbside Waste Characterization Study,” https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/2013-Waste-Characterization-Study.pdf

City of New York, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination, CEQR: City Environmental Quality Review, Technical Manual (NY, City of New York: 2014), http://www.nyc.gov/html/oec/downloads/pdf/2014_ceqr_tm/2014_ceqr_technical_manual.pdf

City of New York, Department of Sanitation, “New York City Commercial Solid Waste Study and Analysis, 2012 Summary Report,” August, 2015, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/about_2012-commercial-waste-study_0815.pdf

City of New York, Department of Sanitation, “2015 NYC Organics Collection Report,” 22, https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/downloads/pdf/studies-and-reports/OrganicsCollection-LL77-NYCOrganicsCollectionReport-2015.pdf

City of New York, Department of Sanitation, “Annual Report: New York City Municipal Refuse and Recycling Statistics: Fiscal Year 2016,” https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/about_dsny-non-dsny-collections-FY2016.pdf

Marathon Equipment, “Compaction Products,” http://www.marathonequipment.com/products/self-contained-compactors/rj-100sc

Toter, “Waste & Recycling Carts” (Statesville, NC: 2016)

US Census Bureau, “Quick Facts: New York,” https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/NY/PST120216

US EPA, Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery, “Volume-to-Weight Conversion Factors,” April, 2016, https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-04/documents/volume_to_weight_conversion_factors_memorandum_04192016_508fnl.pdf