Waste Audit Template

• Organization Name

• Conducted on (Date and Time)

  Date

• Prepared by

• Location
  Address

Current Waste Operations

• Name of Hauler:

• List all collection points inside and outside the company:

• Amount currently collected by weight:

• Amount currently collected by volume:

• Frequency of collection:

• Average bill:

• Billing Frequency:

• Bills based on weight or volume?

  weight

  volume
• Where waste is finally disposed:
  Address

• List current recycling efforts:

• Materials collected:

• How they are collected:

• Amounts of each material collected by weight:

• Percentage of overall waste currently recycled:

• Recycling revenue:

• Recycling costs:

• Avoided disposal costs (i.e., savings accrued by not paying for material to be hauled to final disposal facilities:

Identifying Wastes

• Estimated % in Waste Stream

• Computer paper

• • White ledger:

• White form feed paper

• White copy paper

• White letterhead

• White ledger pads

• Cash register receipts

• Adding machine tape

• Envelopes

• • Colored paper:

• Copy paper

• Yellow legal pads

• Letterhead

• Message pads

• Spreadsheets

• Newsprint

• Corrugated cardboard

• • Mixed waste paper:

• Unsolicited mail

• Coated stock

• Windowed envelopes

• Stick-on notes

• Boxboard

• • Used paper:

• Paper plates/cups

• Paper napkins/towels

• Tissue

• • Non-recyclable paper:

• Wax-coated

• Plastic-coated

• Carbon paper

• • Plastics:

• PETE bottles

• HDPE bottles, unpigmented

• HDPE bottles, pigmented

• HDPE film

• LDPE film

• Vinyl bottles

• Polypropylene

• Polystyrene foam

• Rigid polystyrene

• Other plastics

• • Aluminum:

• Cans

• Foil

• Other aluminum

• • Steel cans:

• Other ferrous materials (strapping)

• Glass

• Brown

• Clear

• Green

• • Yard waste:

• Grass clippings

• Leaves and brush

• Other materials

• Click + Waste Item

Waste Item

• Item name

• Photo/s:

  Media

• (A) lbs. received monthly:

• (B) lbs. not discarded i.e., retained in files or warehouse, mailed out

• (C) lbs. recycled

• (D) Total monthly discards A – (B+C) =

• Comments / Recommendations

• Name and Signature of Auditor

  Sign