Ecoville Environmental Benefits Calculator Ranking for N.C. Counties

Using 2009 annual report recycling data, DPPEA ranked North Carolina counties in relation to how much energy each has saved by recycling. The following rankings, taken from the Ecoville site, take into account only common household recyclables, and do not include items such as construction and demolition debris, yard waste, household hazardous waste or electronic material. Therefore, the counties who rank the highest for recycling may not correlate to the highest Ecoville Environmental Benefits Calculator ranking. Communities with zero data below possibly didn’t meet the weight threshold required to calculate energy saved.

The full list can be found here.

County	2009 WARM model Energy Saved in Million BTUs
MECKLENBURG COUNTY	1,008,284
GUILFORD COUNTY	833,736
WAKE COUNTY	792,794
PITT COUNTY	328,001
BUNCOMBE COUNTY	304,432
FORSYTH COUNTY	279,417
ORANGE COUNTY	250,877
DARE COUNTY	248,943
CRAVEN COUNTY	241,539
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY	177,733
CATAWBA COUNTY	174,797
IREDELL COUNTY	160,039
WAYNE COUNTY	147,980
CUMBERLAND COUNTY	143,538
BURKE COUNTY	142,777
WATAGUA COUNTY	124,200
UNION COUNTY	123,887
LINCOLN COUNTY	112,620
NEW HANOVER COUNTY	105,238
CLEVELAND COUNTY	101,227