Municipal solid waste is trash -- such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings -- that goes into garbage bins and doesn't get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, U.S. states passed a number of flow control and environmental laws that created demand in the municipal solid waste sector for new facilities or updates to existing ...

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 management and landfill engineering represent a critical research domain, addressing both environmental sustainability and public safety. Contemporary studies focus on ...

Few waste-to-energy (WTE) plants have been completed in the U.S. since the mid 1990s, but the story is different around the world, where WTE technology is seen as a suitable solution to municipal ...

Aug 13 - In the late 1990s and early 2000s, U.S. states passed a number of flow control and environmental laws that created demand in the municipal solid waste sector for new facilities or updates to ...

Issuers or borrowers involved in solid-waste financings should disclose external factors that could affect their solid-waste systems, such as the controversy over flow control, environmental ...