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These numbers, however, don't have much meaning to the average person. To help recyclers understand the significance of their actions, the EPA has also developed tools to translate these numbers into equivalent examples that people can more easily understand. • For example, using the figures above, the EPA estimates that Roseville would have had to remove 1,251 cars from the road for one year to have had the same environmental impact in 2016 as they did by recycling. To achieve this, nearly 8% of Roseville's households would have had to give up one car for a year. • Another way to look at it is that the residents of Roseville saved an amount of energy equivalent to 247,547 backyard barbeques worth of propane. Although WARM is the most widely peer-reviewed and accepted model, it is considered to have several flaws. Many believe the use of this calculator is conservative, and understates the real impact of waste reduction efforts, but it offers a conservative starting place to measure our impacts and work towards our goals. Even with these conservative calculations, the impacts of Roseville's recycling program prove to be quite significant. Measuring Environmental Benefits Calculator (MEBCaIcTM) Jeffrey Morris, Ph. D., Economist at Sound Resource Management in Seattle, has developed a calculator that begins with the EPA's WARM calculator, and expands upon it to gather information on not just carbon and CO2, but also several other important environmental and human health indicators. Although not yet widely used, this calculator shows the significant benefits that WARM does not consider. The MEBCaIcTM model expands and shows the benefits other than just energy savings and carbon savings. Recycling materials with zero waste in mind recognizes not just the value in the resource itself, but the contribution to the health of the community when materials are kept out of landfills and incinerators avoiding the toxic and carcinogenic emissions. Roseulle 1 2006 1 2007 1 2008 1 2009 1 2010 1 2011 1 2012 1 2013 1 2014 1 2015 1 2016 1 2017 1 Total Recycling Tons 3441 3682 3556 3251 3322 3243 3173 3225 3212 33]5 3329 3262 carbon Diobde Equivalent Reduction Metric Tons 9,437.3 9,619.0 9,033.5 8,814.0 8,739.3 8,425.1 8,106.2 8,478.7 8,326.3 8,159.5 8,088.0 7,3]1.4 eO0 Human Health - carcinogens Reduction Metric 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 2 1.8 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.5 Tons eBerzere Human Health - Non -Carcinogen Tobns 48097 5,253.0 4,625.7 4,452.0 4,518.0 4,629.6 4,375.0 4,280.1 3,953.0 3,810.2 4,064.9 3,373.7 Reduction Metric Tons eToluere Human Health - Particulates Reduction Metric 4.4 6.6 4.2 4.4 4.8 5.9 5.1 4.2 3.6 3.3 4.4 4.0 Tons (eRA 2 5) Acidification Reduction Metric Tons (e902) 26.9 27 27.3 25.3 25.5 27.1 24.3 25.7 22.7 29.6 221 19.5 13