Talk:Reuse and Recycling through 2005
The following table makes no sense - the "years" heading has no years below it, and the "total" heading...Why would we want "totals" of both intaken stuff and outgoing stuff? That would mean things get counted twice...I don't understand... Pete
- I think Pete's referring to in part the Overall Rates of Reuse and Recycling section, where the total doesn't make sense. A total of Gizmos
Reused and Gizmos Recycled would make sense, but including Received in that does not. Of course the numbers are a bit suspicious:
Reused Recycled Total Received Systems 7,029 25,582 32,611 17,069 Monitors 6,998 19,625 26,623 8,408 Printers 3,342 11,471 14,813 8,045
- Here the total is of the first two columns. It looks like we're disposing of 2-3 times as much stuff as we actually get. Something's wrong there.
- RfS 12:14, 27 October 2006 (PDT)
actual numbers from FGdb
Pulling actual number from FGdb for systems created in the DB before the beginning of this year, this is what is recorded:
Reused Recycled Neither Total 7,284 25,949 16,553 49,786 14.6% 52.1% 33.2% 100%
That is about 15% (a bit less) are recorded as reused (Sold, Adopted, etc). A bit more than half are recorded as recycled, and a whopping third (nearly 50,000 systems) are either here or unaccounted for. The last nose count of the computers I did showed maybe 1,000 on hand in the building. This means that over 30% of our data is untracked when it comes to systems. Either stuff that never showed up (but somehow got into the database) or never got properly marked as reused or recycled.
I'd estimate about 80% recycle, 20% reuse. But it's a wild ass guess.
RfS 12:56, 27 October 2006 (PDT)