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Recommendation DATA 5 — Update and enhance the Consumer Environmental Index (CEI).

The CEI model is a complex and comprehensive tool that focuses on consumer spending patterns and their impacts. As consumer spending changes and drives the markets and thus manufacturing, the model tracks the impacts in the three phases of a product (manufacturing, use, and disposal) to demonstrate impacts of changes in consumers’ behaviors. The CEI model draws on various data sources, such as consumer spending data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Ecology and its partners will update these various data sources on an annual basis to maintain the CEI-related indicators in their present form. www.ecy.wa.gov/beyondwaste/cei_background_11_10.pdf

Ecology will also work with its partners to enhance the CEI. We will add new line items as more data and resources become available. To complete this model, new house construction, government spending, and agricultural impacts and spending patterns need to be added.

Milestone DATA F: Annual updates of the CEI as it currently exists are completed.

Milestone DATA G: A strategy to enhance the CEI is in place and enhancements are in progress.

Links and Resources

• Beyond Waste Progress Report
• Consumer Environmental Index  (Exit Ecology)

 

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