Press the “Use Defaults” button (above and to the right of this text) to load default WCS data into Step E. If disposal data is available the data will load, otherwise update or enter the jurisdiction’s estimated landfill/transformation/EMSW disposal tons for the year. Please note the fourth quarter RDRS disposal data is not due to CalRecycle until late March. Therefore, a full year of disposal data will not display in this capacity calculator until late-Spring.

Note: The calculator does not contain default population or disposal data for special districts. This data is not available as Department of Finance (DOF) does not report population data for the districts, and RDRS does not contain disposal data for the district. Special districts that provide solid waste collection services should work with the city or unincorporated county they are located within to determine the proper data to use for capacity planning.

Note: Regional Agencies and/or Regional Agency members may not display complete disposal data for all members depending on how the data is reported in RDRS.

• Some Regional Agencies are reported as a whole without any disposal reported for individual members.
• Some Regional Agencies are reported for only members without any disposal tons reported for the Regional Agency itself.
• Some Regional Agencies are reported for as members and for the Regional Agency itself.

Therefore, when calculating capacity needs for Regional Agencies or their member jurisdictions, users should review data for each of the members, and the Regional Agency itself, to determine the accuracy of the disposal data that uploads into this calculator. Questions about the proper disposal data to use should be directed to contacts for the Regional Agency contacts or LAMD representative, or logic@calrecycle.ca.gov for member-specific data if it is available.

The per capita disposal rate will be calculated based upon the total population entered in Step B, (this per capita rate may differ from what a user may see in their EAR per capita rate disposal calendar depending on the amount of Green ADC disposed by the jurisdiction). If your jurisdiction has additional organic ADC, AIC, and/or beneficial use at the landfill, or disposed biosolids and/or digestate from a local wastewater treatment plan, you may input those tons into the appropriate fields.

• Note: Except for green material ADC, CalRecycle does not track this information by jurisdiction of origin. Therefore, a jurisdiction will have to use its own available data if needed. These materials also have not been included in WCS data. Therefore, including these materials in the “Total Disposal” will skew the results of further calculations based on the WCS. Jurisdictions should consider those materials separately when estimating needed organics diversion capacity.
• When pressing the "Use Defaults" button, the calculator will update the WCS data by material type and lock out the ability to edit the Material Category totals ("Total Paper", "Total Organic", "and Total Miscellaneous"). After pressing the "Use Defaults" button, users will no longer be able to edit the material category totals without inputting data by individual material type. User may skip pressing the "Use Defaults" button if they only wish to input Material Type Totals by category or to use their own waste characterization study data.

Using the projected population entered in Step B, and applying the per capita disposal rate calculated in Step C, an estimate of future projected disposal tons total will be calculated.

This step allows users to input specific percentages of different organic materials, or use the statewide WCS data (by pressing the “Use Defaults” button) to calculate an estimate of each type of organic material, and the total amount of organic material, in the disposal stream. There is also an option for users to choose a “Primary Facility Activity Type” to indicate the likely pathway each material may take, which will total, by facility type, in the fields beneath the WCS Materials table. Selecting facility types is an optional step and descriptions of the facility types are included as Tool Tips for reference in the fields below the table where the totals by facility type are displayed. Changes made in the WCS Materials table will calculate a percentage of organics in the future disposal stream, and calculate the total amount of organic material in the disposal stream at the end of Step E.

• Note: The tons that appear in the Estimated Tons of Total Disposal column are rounded to the nearest whole number, and as data is aggregated throughout the rest of the calculator, rounding issues may produce totals that are not exact.

This step allows users to input specific facilities to which they may take organic materials. For each facility type, a user may select facilities/sites that report in RDRS or input information for facilities/sites that may not report in RDRS. For each facility type, in the “Enter records in RDRS” tables, after pressing the “+ Add new record” button, a user should select any county where a facility they will utilize is located. The facility names in the next column will be limited to the county selected, and after selecting a facility name from the dropdown menu, the address and RDRS Number will display. Please note that the dropdown menu will include all reporting entities in the selected county that report in RDRS, regardless of the type of facility/site or activities. Some sites or facilities may consist of multiple reporting entities at the same location based on their activities.

Users can then enter the Predicted Annual Tons per Year (TPY) they intend to take to the facility and indicate if the capacity available for those tons is verified capacity or unverified capacity. Verified capacity and unverified capacity will be totaled at the end of the calculator in Step H. Facility TPY that is “unverified” will be noted as “false” and “verified” TPY will appear as “true” after the box is checked.

• Additional facilities can be added by pressing the “+ Add new record” button again. If a user needs to indicate both verified capacity and unverified capacity at the same facility, the user can then choose the same facility after pressing the “+ Add new record” button to add another line.
• If the facility does not report in RDRS, users can press the “+ Add new record” button in the second table of each section, under “Enter records not in RDRS,” and type in specific information for the facility/site they intend to utilize.

Based upon data entered in previous steps, this step will calculate:

• Total projected organics disposal for the period covered.
• The total of verified existing, new, or expanded capacity available.
• The shortfall or excess of verified organics capacity.
• Total potential existing, new, or expanded capacity that has been identified but has not yet been verified.
• Total potential existing, new, or expanded capacity that has not been identified and has not yet been verified.

Data will not appear in these fields if no “verified” or “unverified” predicted annual TPY have been selected in Step F or G. Note: As data was aggregated throughout the calculator, rounding issues may produce estimated totals that are not exact.