Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Workbook
This 21-page booklet offers worksheets that will help to:
- Identify and prioritize Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) program goals
- Identify program barriers
- Define strategies and goals for public outreach
- Select the most appropriate container and pricing system
- Design a rate structure based on waste collection forecast, estimating program costs, and program revenue forecasts
- Implement checklists for bag-, tag- and can-based systems
- Monitor and measure waste generation amounts, and the amounts of material recycled and composted
These worksheets offer simple and clear steps that are suitable for the novice Municipal Solid Waste planner. The worksheets are best suited for the initial program planning phase, as it provides a useful outline of the scope of information that needs to be considered for implementation.
A mixture of decayed plants and other organic material that is used to enrich soil with nutrients.
