Sometimes You Can’t Even Manage What You *Can* Measure
October 21st, 2009
Via the CBC: Toronto will miss its target for reducing landfill waste because only 15% (!!) of apartment and condo buildings have green bins. 15% sounds pitiful, but one reason the figure is so low is that the drop in city revenues over the last 12 months has meant cutbacks in the green bin program. I wonder if this would be moving ahead faster if the city’s web site had a dashboard that included week-by-week stats?
The green bin program started in my apartment building a few months ago, and we were told we were one of the first buildings in the city to have it running, a kind of pilot test. So the 15% figure this year looks actually high to me.