The 2017 GRESB Assessment uncovered the challenges Healthy Buildings’ clients face with capturing accurate waste data. While EPA’s Portfolio Manager tool now provides a waste tracking tool, most waste haulers do not provide accurate ongoing data. This prompted an exploration of solutions to improve ongoing waste data accuracy at both the tenant and building-level. Waste tracking can be difficult since utility bills are not based on consumption or usage. Certification and assessment programs like GRESB, LEED, ZeroWaste, etc. have different requirements for measuring and calculating waste diversion, so while the sustainability industry is responding to the movement toward dynamic data tracking, we decided to survey some client efforts at waste data tracking and experiment in-house with our Green Team. [Read more…]