Municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems in the United States have undergone much evolution over time. The overall system has seen many changes, including changes in policy, the types of ...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) recycling programs are highly localized activities, where materials are collected, sorted, processed, and converted into raw materials for the production of new products.

State environmental officials now have a better understanding about the types and amounts of waste being dumped in South Carolina's landfills. The ...

Solid waste in Mulago, Kampala, 2010. The city’s residents have found ways to recycle waste into energy. SuSanA Secretariat/Flickr, CC BY-SA In places where municipalities continuously fail to collect ...