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TABLE 16.6 RANKING AND COMPARISON OF
SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES TO PREDICT SOLID WASTE
BASED ON STANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT
MAGNITUDE FOR ISO 14001 CERTIFICATION

STANDARDIZED REGRESSION
WASTE GROUP COEFFICIENT FOR ISO 14001 CERT.
CHM −0.12

ELM −0.12

FBM −0.11
WDM −0.11
FDM −0.11

PPM −0.09

MLM −0.08
TRM −0.04

GOV 0.00
EDU 0.00

RST 0.00
AUT 0.00

HTL 0.00
RTL 0.00

FDS 0.00
MED 0.00

ARG 0.00
CON 0.00

REC 0.00

7 Education
8 Recreation and museums
9 Retail and wholesale
10 Automotive sales, service, and repair
11 Agriculture
12 Commercial and government

These 12 waste groups were primarily service oriented (nonmanufacturing) and gen-
erated less average waste per company than the 8 manufacturing waste groups that
required more variables to predict waste. The 12 nonmanufacturing waste groups gen-
erated primarily office waste such as papers and food waste. These waste components are