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These rates reflect the amount of reuse or recycling that' <br />was occurring in the Region in the mid-19?0s, 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 industrial <br />employment in each county. Consequently, the use of'average <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 />which used metropolitan averages. <br /> <br /> The population and. employment projections' used by Pope- <br />Reid are consistent with the projections in the Council's <br />plan. The total cumulative-amount of solid 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 />percent (43,874,900 tons vs.. 41,622,000 tons). Thus there is <br />general agreement on the total amount of solid waste that the <br />Metropolitan Area will have to accommodate in the next 20 <br />years. <br /> <br /> <br />