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Contracting Best Practices: Align Costs to Rates

Zero waste contracting best practice - Align Costs to Rates.

Contracting Best Practices: Equal Capacity Commercial Bin Size and Frequency

Best practices in zero caste contracting of providing at least equal capacity bins for commercial composting and recycling as disposal bin capacity.

Contracting Best Practices: Limit or Eliminate Disposal Payments

Best practices for zero waste contacts - limit or eliminate disposal payments

Contracting Best Practices: Education and Outreach

Best practices Minimum Zero Waste contracting related to education and outreach.

Contracting Best Practices: Reward Workers for More Diversion

Best practices for zero waste - worker training and incentives.

Contracting Best Practices: Innovations Clause

Best practices for Zero Waste contracts - Innovations Clauses.

Contracting Best Practices: Require Productive Market Use of Yard Debris and Other Organic Materials

Best practice for zero waste - requiring productive use of compostable materials such as food waste, green waste, wood, and food soiled paper.

Contracting Best Practices: Equal Services for Multi-Family Customers

Best practices for zero waste contracts - provide multi-family recycling and composting services at least equal to single family services.

Contracting Best Practices: Separate Compensation from Rates

Best practices for zero waste contracting - separate compensation from rates.

Contracting Best Practices: Source Separation Requirement or Preference

Best practices in waste hauling and disposal contracting - Source Separation Preference

Check - Evaluating Parts of an EMS

This page takes you though the basic steps (Plan, Do, Check, Act) of building an Environmental Management System (EMS) as they are outlined in the 2001 Second Edition of Environmental Management Systems: An Implementation Guide. "Check" section.

Plan - Initial Development of an EMS

This page takes you though the first phase and steps of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle of building an Environmental Management System, beginning with Plan.

EPA RCRA ID: CTD051320372

CTD051320372, MILLENNIUM BUSINESS PARK MIDDLE ST Middletown CT

Do - Implementing an EMS

This page takes you though the basic steps of the "Do" phase of the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle.

EPA RCRA ID: CTD058508722

CTD058508722, COLONIAL BRONZE CO THE WINSTED RD Torrington CT

Develop an EMS

Developing an EMS by utilizing the steps of the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle.

Featured Examples and Resources

Browse by topic page enabling users to click on links that go directly to community implementation examples and resource links.

Procurement Best Practices: Local Government Billing or Lockbox

Best practices developed from zero waste case studies - Local Government Billing or lock-box account system with payment instruction.

Procurement Best Practices: Minimum Zero Waste Standards & Best and Final Offer Process

Best practices for zero waste standards to open price proposals only from those who meet those minimum non-price contract requirements.

Procurement Best Practices: Publicly Owned Facilities

Best procurement practices developed from zero waste case studies - publicly owned facilities