Refuse typical composition

Within waste disposed to landfill, vegetable matter, paper and cardboard and to some extent, textiles are all biodegradable. Although, as shown in Table 6, the composition of municipal refuse varies from country to country and will vary from season to season. In the developed world it typically contains about... 

TABLE 1. An example of typical plastics waste compositions from the packaging refuse... 

A typical refuse composition shown in Table 8.10 indicates that in the U.S., paper, yard waste, and food waste are the predominating refuse components. Table 8.11 shows the mean composition of municipal refuse in the U.S. the standard deviations, also listed, indicate the variations that one might expect. 

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