Waste Produced: Non-Hazardous Waste (OI7442)

This metric is intended to capture the amount of non-hazardous waste the organization’s operations produced during the reporting period. To report the amount of hazardous waste produced, organizations can report Waste Produced: Hazardous Waste (OI1346). Non-hazardous waste presents no dangers to the environment in terms of contamination or pollution, with definitions varying with local legislation.

In some contexts, this metric can serve as an indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.