My Life In Footnotes: Value Added Recycling Jobs '92  "Value
Added by Recycling Industries in Massachusetts" was an article I
published in July 1992, in my first few months of my appointment
as "Recycling Director" at Massachusetts DEP.  Footnotes to the
report live on, and I feel sure I must have a hard copy
somewhere, but I cannot find it online any longer.  Drive around
the parking lots of your competitors.  Count the cars.  Use the
cars to estimate the number of employees.  Some staff may be
absent, some may have carpooled, some processors may be more
efficient than others. But generally, if you circle 100 paper
recyclers parking lots, the ones with just a few cars are less
likely to be baling the same amount of material.  The larger
ones will actually bale more per employee or more per car
perhaps (due to larger, higher efficiency balers), and the
smaller ones may employ more people per ton.  But you have a
point of reference.  When I came to work for the government, I
thought that I would show people th