Re: Market Forces and P2-Reply

[Maureen Hart <mhart@tiac.net>]

At 12:23 2/14/1997, josh_kanner@abtassoc.com wrote:

>     then perhaps the answer is to create new measures of performance.  Why 
>     not normalize releases to production so that the efficiency of a 
>     particular facility (company) is communicated? 

Josh,
The MA Toxics Use Reduction Institute has developed a methodology
for normalizing production when measuring TUR progress.  Liz Harriman
at TURI can probably get you a copy of the report, 'Measuring
progress in Toxics Use Reduction and Pollution Prevention' (1996)
When we wrote the report we only had data from 1990 to 1993 and
we did not look very carefully at specific industries because of data
quality issues.  Now that the 1995 data is available, we may
look at it again and look more closely at specific industries.

Maureen Hart (mhart@tiac.net)
http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators
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