page_title: Municipal solid waste
section_title: Components of solid waste management
hierarchical_section_title: Municipal solid waste / Components of solid waste management
caption_attribution_description: English: Bins to collect paper, aluminium, glass, PET bottles and incinerable waste (Switzerland). The labels are written in French, German, Italian (official languages) and English. Français&#160;: Tri des déchets (Suisse).
context_page_description: Municipal solid waste, commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. "Garbage" can also refer specifically to food waste, as in a garbage disposal; the two are sometimes collected separately. In the European Union, the semantic definition is 'mixed municipal waste,' given waste code 20 03 01 in the European Waste Catalog. Although the waste may originate from a number of sources that has nothing to do with a municipality, the traditional role of municipalities in collecting and managing these kinds of waste have produced the particular etymology 'municipal.'
context_section_description: The municipal solid waste industry has four components: recycling, composting, disposal, and waste-to-energy via incineration. There is no single approach that can be applied to the management of all waste streams, therefore the Environmental Protection Agency, a U.S. federal government agency, developed a hierarchy ranking strategy for municipal solid waste. The waste management hierarchy is made up of four levels ordered from most preferred to least preferred methods based on their environmental soundness: Source reduction and reuse; recycling or composting; energy recovery; treatment and disposal.
caption: Bins to collect paper, aluminium, glass, PET bottles and incinerable waste.
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