Subject(s): Waste Management -- Environment -- Waste generation and management in a technological society, solid waste management, integrated waste management, implementing integrated waste management strategies, typical costs for major waste management options, decision making, philosophy and organization of this handbook -- Federal role in municipal solid waste management : Resource conservation and recovery act, clean air act, clean water act, federal aviation administration guidelines -- Solid waste state legislation : Trends in municipal waste generation and management, waste reduction legislation movement, special waste legislation, state funding, waste reduction goals -- Planning for municipal solid waste management programs : State solid waste management planning, local and regional solid waste management planning -- Solid waste stream characteristics : Municipal solid waste defines, methods of characterizing municipal solid waste, municipal solid waste management, variability of municipal solid waste generation -- Source reduction- quantity and toxicity - quantity reduction, toxicity reduction -- Collection of solid waste, recycling, markets and products for recycled material, sustainable recycling, recycling markets, market development, trade issues, household hazardous wastes (HHW)- problems of household hazardous products, HHW regulation and policy, product stewardship and sustainability -- Other special wastes- automobile and household batteries, used oil, scrap tires, source reduction and reuse, construction and demolition (C&D) debris, source characteristics and quantities of C& debris, regulations governing C&D materials and debris -- Computer and other electronic solid waste : hazardous components in computers and electronic waste, disposal of computers is hazardous, extended producer responsibility and electronic toxin phaseouts, clean computer be designed, resources for dealing with computer waste -- Composting of municipal solid wastes, waste to energy combustion - incineration technologies, ash management and disposal, landfill disposal, emission control, landfilling, siting municipal solid waste facilities, financing and life cycle costing of solid waste management systems