Waste composition studies (a.k.a. "waste audits") come in all shapes and sizes to serve a range of purposes and budgets. But whether an audit results in meaningful information or just a report gathering dust depends on the way it's carried out. Factors like which collection streams to sample and how sorting categories are defined become critical to ensuring the right data for effective program planning. This webinar will feature industry experts reviewing best practices to design audits, starting by identifying project outcomes and the questions that composition data needs to answer. The presenters will also cite case study examples from residential, institutional, commercial and other settings, showing how audit data was analyzed to guide diversion and upstream decisions.

Join FEMP for the next Energy Security Roundtable. These quarterly gatherings bring together personnel from federal agencies to discuss agency progress, challenges, and best practices, while also exchanging updates on federal resilience initiatives. This forum aims to assess current advancements and perceived obstacles to energy and water resilience planning at agency sites and installations. The discussions cover resilience impacts across a variety of topics. Participation in the forum is limited to federal agency employees.

FEMP hosts a quarterly, virtual working group dedicated to empowering federal agency laboratory owners, managers, and operators to achieve their energy-related goals. The Federal Labs Working Group serves as a platform for coordinating activities and fostering the exchange of ideas focused on leveraging lab performance, best practices, and resources at federal agency laboratories and U.S. Department of Energy national labs. This working group collaborates on best practices, aligns safety measures with effectiveness in research environments, improves the ventilation effectiveness of federal labs, conducts laboratory ventilation risk assessments, and establishes dynamic management plans for federal labs. Participation in the forum is limited to federal agency employees and government contractors supporting the operation of laboratories in the federal sector. If you're interested in attending, email Amanda Kirkeby (akirkeby@nlr.gov) to request to join.