Four ways to make the most of a limited study budget to get high quality data you need Waste characterization studies (WCS), sometimes called waste audits, help local governments and service providers understand what is actually in the waste streams headed for...
Project Overview Since 2024, Cascadia has partnered with the City of Los Altos and Mission Trail Waste Systems (MTWS) to help local businesses and multifamily properties understand and implement California’s SB 1383 organics recycling requirements. Approach and...
Project Overview In 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contracted Cascadia Consulting Group to lead a multi-year effort to assess the potential of municipal solid waste (MSW) as a feedstock for biofuel production. The work combines field sampling, laboratory...
To help inform implementation of California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act (SB 707), Cascadia partnered with USAgain to estimate the scale of textile disposal and the infrastructure needed to support increased statewide collection for reuse. Our analysis estimates...
To help the City of Seattle reach its new citywide solid waste target of reducing landfill disposal by 50% by 2030—and to support Seattle Public Utilities’ (SPU) application for the Bloomberg Mayor’s Challenge—Cascadia staff worked with SPU to address food waste...
