This dataset is for 127 construction and demolition waste loads delivered to the Spyhill and East Calgary Waste Management Facilities during four seasons in 2019. These loads are from both commercial and residential sources. The weight per cent composition is provided for a number of material categories and subcategories.
Waste Composition studies are periodically conducted by Waste and Recycling Services to help assess the performance of diversion and education programs and inform improvements and new program design.

This dataset is a complete inventory of all assets on this site and any assets sourced from other sites, if applicable. Use this dataset to track the performance of data publishing, conduct metadata maintenance, or present an overview of what kinds of data exists on the site.

The source of this data is the 2018 Citizen Satisfaction Survey, a telephone survey conducted with a randomly selected sample of n=2,500 Calgarians aged 18 years and older between August 15th and September 12th, 2018. Of the sample, 40% were cell phones and 60% were landlines. The margin of error (MOE) for the total sample of 2,500 is ± 2.0 percentage points,19 times out of 20.

Waste Composition studies are periodically conducted by Waste and Recycling Services to help assess the performance of diversion and education programs and inform improvements and new program design. This dataset is for garbage bin waste from multi-family complexes, and represents the pooled average of samples in each of the four seasons of 2019 (40 samples). The multi-family developments sampled included both low rise and high rise types, and all were customers of The City’s Commercial Collections service. The weight per cent composition is provided for a number of material categories and subcategories.