Projects
The U.S. recycling industry includes a wide range of firms offering a tremendous variety of products and services. Because of its diversity, standard information on employment, annual sales, wages, value-added, investment trends and other economic measures are generally not available. And yet, financiers, economic developers, entrepreneurs, government policy makers and recycling market development professionals need this basic information to establish priorities for investments, evaluate potential market opportunities and, generally, to intelligently allocate the resources so important to the continued growth of recycling.
To address this information gap, NERC undertook the Recycling Economic Information Project. The project’s Final Report, published in April 1998, detailed a recommended methodology for obtaining economic information on the nation’s recycling and reuse industries. The report also provided a wealth of reference information on the economics of recycling, including SIC classifications of recycling and reuse businesses, a review of available data and descriptions of the 45 different business categories. Through a partnership with the National Recycling Coalition, NERC implemented the recommended information gathering methodology. This first-ever study of the U.S. recycling and reuse industries was implemented in two phases. Phase One targeted the ten Northeastern states and will test and refine the methodology. In Phase Two, the study was extended to cover the remainder of the nation.
Recycling Economic Information Project: Final Report, April 1998
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