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Summary of Estimates of Direct Economic Activity – Chart Text
Annual payroll and estimated receipts are in the thousands of dollars. Throughput is in thousands of tons. Throughput is the amount of recovered material recycled and includes manufacturing scrap sent for recycling. It excludes materials prepared for fuel use and in-house process scrap returned to the manufacturing process. Throughput estimates are summed to avoid triple counting at collection, processing, and manufacturing stages.
Listed by data type.
The establishments industry sector and data type.
The recycling collection sector had:
- 9,247 establishments
- 32,010 workers
- 956,875 dollars in annual payroll
- 1,974,516 in estimated receipts
- 191,082 in estimated throughput
The recycling processing sector had:
- 12,051 establishments
- 160,865 workers
- 3,826,360 dollars in annual payroll
- 41,753,902 estimated receipts
- 191,082 in estimated throughput
The recycling manufacturing sector had:
- 8,047 establishments
- 759,746 workers
- 29,181,749 dollars in annual payroll
- 178,390,423 in estimated receipts
- 157,545 in estimated throughput
The reuse and remanufacturing industry had:
- 26,716 establishments
- 169,183 workers
- 2,747,498 dollars in annual payroll
- 14,182,531 in estimated receipts
- Estimated throughput is not applicable
Industry totals:
- 56,061 establishments
- 1,121,804 workers
- 36,712,482 dollars in annual payroll
- 236,301,371 in estimated receipts
- Estimated throughput is not applicable
Comparison of Industry Employment
- Recycling and Reuse Industry: 1.25 million
- Waste Management: 250,000
- Machinery Manufacturing: 1.4 million
- Auto and Trucking Manufacturing: 1.2 million
- Food Manufacturing: 1.42 million
- Computer and Electronic Manufacturing: 1.5 million
- Mining: 325,000
- Insurance: 2.25 million
Comparison of Annual Wages per Job
- All Paid Jobs: $30,000
- Recycling and Reuse: $32,500
- Waste Management: $31,000
- Machinery Manufacturing: $37,000
- Auto and Truck Manufacturing: $41,000
- Food Manufacturing: $26,000
- Computer and Electronics Manufacturing: $43,000
- Mining: $41,000
- Insurance: $39,000
Summary of Recycling and Reusing Industry Contribution to Government Revenues (figures are in millions of dollars)
Listed by industry sector.
The recycling collection sector contributed the following direct effects revenues:
- Federal: 200
- State: 100
- Local: 100
- Total: 400
The recycling collection sector contributed the following total effects revenues:
- Federal: 300
- State: 200
- Local: 100
- Total: 600
The recycling processing sector contributed the following direct effects revenues:
- Federal: 700
- State: 400
- Local: 300
- Total: 1,400
The recycling processing sector contributed the following total effects revenues:
- Federal: 1,700
- State: 800
- Local: 600
- Total: 3,200
The recycling manufacturing sector contributed the following direct effects revenues:
- Federal: 5,400
- State: 2,600
- Local: 2,100
- Total: 10,000
The recycling manufacturing sector contributed the following total effects revenues:
- Federal: 20,500
- State: 9,900
- Local: 7,800
- Total: 38,200
The reuse/remanufacturing sector contributed the following direct effects revenues:
- Federal: 600
- State: 300
- Local: 200
- Total: 1,200
The reuse/remanufacturing sector contributed the following total effects revenues:
- Federal: 2,100
- State: 1,000
- Local: 800
- Total: 3,900
Total contributions from direct effects revenues for all industry sectors:
- Federal: 6,900
- State: 3,400
- Local: 2,600
- Total: 12,900
Total contributions from total effects revenues for all industry sectors:
- Federal: 24,600
- State: 11,900
- Local: 9,400
- Total: 45,800
Recycling Manufacturing Industry Employment by Major Material Group
- Organics: 10,000
- Glass: 25,000
- Nonferrous metals: 125,000
- Plastics: 200,000
- Paper: 150,000
- Ferrous Metals: 250,000
