ESG 101 Checklist

By Carmine Esposito, National Waste Associates

If your organization wishes to report on its ESG performance in waste and recycling, we have created a comprehensive checklist of the core reporting requirements that you would need to consider.

Checklist of Waste Related Reporting Requirements

For the organization’s significant actual and potential waste-related impacts, provide a description of:
- the inputs, activities, and outputs that lead or could lead to these impacts;
- whether these impacts relate to waste generated in the organization’s own activities or to waste generated upstream or downstream in its value chain.
Actions, including circularity measures, taken to prevent waste generation in the organization’s own activities and upstream and downstream in its value chain.
Actions to manage significant impacts from waste generated.
If the waste generated by the organization is managed by a third party, a description of the processes used to determine whether the third party manages the waste in line with contractual or legislative obligations.
Description of the processes used to collect and monitor waste-related data.
Total weight of waste generated in tons, and a breakdown of this total by composition of the waste.
Total weight of waste diverted from disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by composition of the waste.
Total weight of hazardous waste diverted from disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by the following recovery operations:
- Preparation for reuse;
- Recycling;
- Other recovery operations.
Total weight of non-hazardous waste diverted from disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by the following recovery operations:
- Preparation for reuse;
- Recycling;
- Other recovery operations.
Total weight of waste directed to disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by composition of the waste.
Total weight of hazardous waste directed to disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by the following disposal operations:
- Incineration (with energy recovery);
- Incineration (without energy recovery);
- Landfilling;
- Other disposal operations.
Total weight of non-hazardous waste directed to disposal in tons, and a breakdown of this total by the following disposal operations:
- Incineration (with energy recovery);
- Incineration (without energy recovery);
- Landfilling;
- Other disposal operations.

Do you recognize the growing importance of ESG Reporting for your organization? Does this all feel like too much for you to manage?

NWA has a specialized Compliance Manager, who can complete all this paperwork for you to help keep you in compliance. Talk to us today at 1-888-692-5005 x6 or email sales@nationalwaste.com.

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