Contains:
Introduction, Federal role in managing municipal solid waste, State legislation on solid waste, Designing municipal solid waste management programs, Characteristics of solid waste stream, Source reduction: quantity and toxicity, Quantity reduction, Toxicity reduction, Solid waste collection, Recycling, Markets and products for recycled materials, Household hazardous waste, Other special wastes, Batteries, Used motor oil, Used tires, Construction and demolition wastes, Computers and other electronic wastes, Composting of municipal solid waste, Waste-to-energy incineration, Incineration technologies, Ash management and disposal, Emission control, Landfilling, Siting of solid waste management facilities, Financing and costing of solid waste management systems, Terminology, Conversion factors from US customary units to international system (SI) units, Index.