Estimating Program Participation and Waste Volumes
Please enter the total population in your community
Besides advertising, participation may be affected by other factors. These include the distance participants must travel and sometimes the economic status of participants. Recalculate average participation and heavily advertised participation based on these factors.
Distance Factors:
Please enter the total population within 10 miles of the collection site.
Total households within 10 miles of the collection site.
(Automatically calculated)
Economics Factors:
Total households where participant own their home
(Automatically calculated)
Click on the Calculate button to calculate the Program Participation rates and estimated costs below.
Electronic Collection One-Day Event
Estimated Population Program Participation rate.
Total estimated cost for Community Electronic Collection Event
(Additional cost for disposal of monitors and televisions)
Household Hazardous Waste
One-Day Collection Event
Estimated Population Program Participation rate.
Total estimated cost for community HHW Collection Event
Anticipated pounds of collection of HHW per collection event.
(Each household typically averages about 100 pounds of HHW generation a year.)
This worksheet is only used for estimated cost for a one-day collection event. These costs are based on estimated participation rates and annual average cost for past collection events in North Dakota. These are other factors that may increase or decrease costs. There is no way to determine actual cost because the type of waste varies, as well as the service providers and mileage to your community.
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