Volume 1 of the Final Report presents the results of the PWCS conducted in May and June 2004, and the WCS, conducted from October 2004 through August 2005. The purpose of both the PWCS and WCS was to characterize the City’s residential Waste.
This research serves as a new “baseline” against which to test NYC residents’ awareness of recycling program advertising when it is launched in media venues throughout the City and would add to the amount of longitudinal data measuring changes over time.