Merge pull request #121 from code4policy/sprint3

add 2 more recs from city

Author: bherceha

recommendations.html

@@ -52,10 +52,13 @@ <h2>Considerations</h2>
             <h2>Next Steps</h2>
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                      <li>We recommend conducting a difference-in-difference regression (DiD). A DiD would measure the relationship between annual household tonnage and variables that affect trash production, such as whether or not a municipality adopted PAYT and the affects of time. This would allow the city of Boston to understand the impacts of PAYT over time while controlling for additional variables. As of now, our pre- and post-PAYT assessment poses no statistical significance.</li>
-                  <li>We recommend contacting currently contracted waste management companies to collect data on the recycling contamination rate (tonnage of solid waste that has ended up in recycling) in municipalities that have implemented PAYT. If the tonnage of solid waste in the recycling stream has increased post-PAYT, as some of our interviewees suspect, then PAYT may not be effective in reducing solid waste tonnage.</li>
+                  <li>We recommend contacting currently contracted waste management companies to collect data on the recycling contamination rate (tonnage of solid waste that has ended up in recycling) in municipalities that have implemented PAYT. If the tonnage of solid waste in the recycling stream has increased post-PAYT, as some of our interviewees suspect, then PAYT may not be effective in reducing solid waste tonnage disposed.</li>
                     <li>We recommend calculating pre- and post-PAYT recycling tonnage in municipalities that have implemented PAYT.</li>
                     <li>With the understanding that municipality data is limited, we recommend analyzing the changes in solid waste and recycling tonnage pre- and post-PAYT as it differs by program type (bag, tag, cart, hybrid).</li>
                      <li>One limitation of our analysis is the lack of data on total solid waste tonnage disposed in each municipality. We only have access to the tonnage of solid waste disposed by each household that participates in a municipality's trash program (this does not include many large buildings or public trash receptacles). Ideally, we would be able to calculate the change in annual solid waste tonnage per capita before and after PAYT. As of now, we cannot conclude that PAYT reduces total garbage disposed.</li>
+                     <li>We recommend investigating how PAYT impacts different socioeconomic groups in a particular municipality.</li>
+                     <li>We recommend investigating how PAYT impacts different socioeconomic groups in a given municipality.</li>
+                     <li>We recommend looking into tiered PAYT programs, such as those that provide subsidized receptacles for certain populations.</li>
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