How do I report recycling efforts?
It’s smart business to recycle. It’s also smart business to report your recycling activities. Reporting is easy. Keep track of what and how much you recycle so you can report your recycling efforts.Smart Business now offers a free and confidential online reporting system called Biz-TRAC that allows businesses to efficiently track their recycling and solid waste management efforts.
Organizations also can track disposal costs and revenue generated from the sale of recyclables.In addition, businesses are able to create reports including an environmental benefits report (e.g. barrels of oil or trees saved) based on their recycling activities. Start using Biz-TRAC today!
For those companies not wanting to use Biz-TRAC, please complete this fillable Word document and e-mail it to smartbiz@dhec.sc.gov. All surveys must be submitted by Friday, December 4, 2009.
Why should I report recycling efforts?
The recycling information collected from companies such as yours allows the state to accurately measure South Carolina's recycling rate, recognizing that it is the state's goal to recycle 35 percent of its municipal solid waste. In addition, compilation of the data allows the state to identify recycling markets in need of expansion, gauge disposal capacity and make effective solid waste management decisions.
Reporting is done by fiscal year so you need to keep track of your recycling activities from July 1 to June 30. You should report your information each year.
To read the "South Carolina Solid Waste Management Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2008," click here.
NOTE: All information submitted is treated confidentially. This data will go directly into the county report that is submitted to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control as required. Individual businesses and the amount recycled are never reported – only totals by material and county.
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The S.C. Smart Business Recycling Program is a partnership of DHEC and the S.C. Department of Commerce.
This Web page was last modified on July 29, 2009.