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
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)
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
Editor's Notes
Facilitated discussions
Temporary logins with read only ability can facilitate data requests and report reviews and free up staff time -Very easy to deliver a standard waste/recycling survey and receive back uniform data without the need for any mailing, forms or state side data entry.-Because there is no rekeying of data from multiple sources, eliminates errors in reporting.-Time Spent Collecting & Analyzing of Recycling/Solid Waste Data has been reduced roughly 75% with improved accuracy.-County/City Officials are more apt to provide good data as system takes them less time enter and submit vs. filling out paper forms, and manipulating stand along databases or spreadsheets for example.-When errors do occur, they can be spotted instantly since often previous years data is presented on same screen. And corrections can be made just as easy.-Time and Author stamps on most data screens provide answers to who entered the data a when.-In our case replaced need for keeping separate contacts database, numerical waste databases, and physical files of forms and reports.-Anyone with a PC and a internet connection can research past values, (i.e. at conference or event and someone wants to know how much their community recycled last year)-Even computer novices have managed to use it. Of course cons....but we can keep these to ourselves. -Sometimes slow-Hard to enter large amounts of data stateside-Don't own or control database, so can be non-dynamic at times (a bit rigid)-Once Emerge gets paid, production and service slows down....
