| |
| Web URL(s): | http://search.proquest.com/docview/236894721/fulltextPDF
Last checked: 05/09/2014
Requires: PDF Reader
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website
http://search.proquest.com/docview/236894721/fulltext
Last checked: 05/09/2014
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website |
|---|
| Publication Type:
| Trade |
|---|
| Author(s): | Allaway, David |
|---|
| Author Affiliation: | Solid Waste Policy and Program Development, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Portland, Oregon |
|---|
| Title: | Surveying residential yard trimmings practices |
|---|
| Column Name: | Impact on clean air
Other records with the "Impact on clean air" Column
|
|---|
| Source: | BioCycle, The Journal of Composting & Recycling. Vol. 47, No. 5, May 2006, p. 22-24. |
|---|
| Publishing Information: | Emmaus, PA: The JG Press, Inc. |
|---|
| # of Pages: | 3 |
|---|
| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Questionnaire surveys; Yard waste; Composting
|
|---|
| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses a home composting system aimed at reducing the burning of yard debris. Details how City Garbage Service of La Grande, Oregon, purchased bins that were sold to 303 households. Also details the methods used to induce a response in the survey sent to the bin purchasers including a signed contract asking the owner to participate, a letter signed by a community leader asking the owner to participate in the survey, free gifts for responding, and additional surveys and phone calls made to those who did not initially respond. Reports that "89% of respondents reported that they were composting some yard trimmings, and 82% reported that they were using the city-sponsored bin...[and] bin recipients who reported composting at the time of the survey were roughly evenly divided between 'former' and 'new' composters." Mentions that "after recieving their bins, almost half of these households stopped burning altogether." Briefly mentions that "Development of Environmental Quality (DEQ) attempted to estimate the tonnage of material managed in the home compost bins - both total material as well as 'new' diversion from disposal. This proved to be challenging given lack of information on per-household yard debris generation, volumetric estimations, volume-to-weight conversion factors of material 'in the bin', and the significant overlap between different waste management options." |
|---|
| Language: | English |
|---|
| References: | 0 |
|---|
| Note: | Pictures, color
Tables |
|---|
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Allaway, D. 2006. Surveying residential yard trimmings practices. BioCycle. 47(5):p. 22-24. |
| Fastlink to access this record outside TGIF: https://tic.msu.edu/tgif/flink?recno=111911 |
| If there are problems with this record, send us feedback about record 111911. |
| Choices for finding the above item: |
|---|
| Web URL(s):
http://search.proquest.com/docview/236894721/fulltextPDF
Last checked: 05/09/2014
Requires: PDF Reader
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website
http://search.proquest.com/docview/236894721/fulltext
Last checked: 05/09/2014
Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website |
| 
MSU catalog number: S 661 .C6 |
| Find from within TIC:
Digitally in TIC by record number. |
| Request through your local library's inter-library loan service (bring or send a copy of this TGIF record) |
