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Recommendation DATA 3 — Base policy decisions on analysis of trends and projections based on Beyond Waste indicators.

This is the overall goal of the Beyond Waste Progress Report. Ecology and its partners will evaluate whether this goal is met or not. Indicators will drive policy, inside and outside the agency, by analysis of underlying trends and projections. Policy and decision makers for Ecology and its partners will view indicators as a whole, to get a clear picture of progress toward Beyond Waste, further its implementation, and identify areas of success and failure and needs for redistribution of resources.

Staff, local government, and agency management and decision makers will understand how their work and agency programs fit in with the Beyond Waste Plan.

• Indicators will be connected upward to other program or agency measures, and downwards to staff work plans.
• Ecology will establish goals for existing indicators, based on how initiatives are expected to impact indicator levels over time.
• Benchmarking, which is the process of comparing our indicator achievement levels to a particular standard (such as comparing with other states’ recycling data), will help guide policy decisions.

Milestone DATA D: Annual indicator reports include goals and are evaluated. Policy decisions are based on the trend analysis.

Links and Resources

• Beyond Waste Progress Report

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