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These rates reflect the amount of reuse or recycling that <br />was occurring in the Regi6n in the mid-1970s, when they were <br />developed. The amount of waste generated by county or by <br />waste generation district will be strongly influenced by the <br />population density and amount of commercial and industr-ial <br />employment in each county. Consequently, the use'of a~erage <br />rates for the Metropolitan Area's total population and-' <br />employment may yield results that vary slightly from those <br />determined by projecting solid waste amounts based on county-' <br />specific rates. This can be seen by comparing the waste <br />generation estimated in the Pope-Reid report, which used <br />county-specific rates, with those in the Council's 1979 plan, <br /> <br />which used metropolitan averages. .-- -~- <br /> <br /> The population and employment projections used bY Pope <br />Reid are consistent with the projections in the Council'~ . <br />plan. The total cumulative amount of ~olid waste <br />projected by Pope-Reid to be generated between 1980 and 2000 <br />varies from the Council's projections by less than 5.5 <br /> <br />1980 in the planning period, as Pope-Reid has, the cumulative <br />difference in capacity needed is only 1.3 percent. Thus, <br />~here is general agreemenr on .the ~otal amount of solid waste <br />Chat ~he Metropolitan Area will have to accommoda=e in <br />next 20 years. <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />