2. Our recommendations
We made one recommendation to address our findings. All audited agencies have accepted the recommendation.
1. Our findings
What we examined
For this review we had a single line of inquiry:
1. Do agencies meet the requirements of the Data Quality Information Management Framework standard (Data Quality Standard)?
To answer this question, we examined:
5. Understanding and communicating waste flows
Not all data the department uses to track different waste streams is reliable. This may compromise the accuracy of the way it tracks its progress towards its recycling targets, and projects Victoria's future recycling needs. The department does not account for this uncertainty, or communicate it, in the projections it publishes.
Covered in this section: