Waste, Recycling & Materials Management
If you have a waste challenge, we can solve it. Cascadia is widely considered as the go-to expert for providing data-driven analyses, practical strategies, and on-the-ground technical assistance to reduce waste and increase recycling. We provide you with a solid foundation for innovations in strategic planning, policy development, and program design and implementation.
We provide expertise and services in:
Diversion calculators
We design custom tools that:
- Identify opportunities to reduce waste
- Reliably estimate the financial, diversion, and greenhouse gas benefits associated with various strategies
- Are user friendly and can be used in simple desktop programs as well as on hand-held devices
Waste and recycling characterization
- Municipal comprehensive characterization
- Facility-specific characterization
- Desktop modeling based on in-house data
- On-site material and waste assessments
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Diversion and waste prevention strategies
- Training and other technical assistance
- Market assessments
- New market development
- Innovative rate structures and contracting solutions
- Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
- Strategy development and analysis
- Research and analysis
- Policy development and evaluation
- Program design
Charlie Scott - Waste & Recycling Research
“Cascadia has a reputation for being the go-to team for doing waste audits. They have been everywhere, looking at a community’s garbage. They’re experts at splicing and dicing it and explaining what you see under the microscope. They have a phenomenal reputation for doing high-caliber work and being experts in the field.”
-Jetta Antonakos, City of Tacoma, Solid Waste Management
-Jetta Antonakos, City of Tacoma, Solid Waste Management
