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Solid waste is extraordinarily heterogeneous. It varies with an enormous number of factors: country, region, season, economics, etc. Successful management of waste, and successful design of systems to achieve its control, require a thorough knowledge of its composition and properties
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Stessel, R.I. (1996). Waste Analysis. In: Recycling and Resource Recovery Engineering. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80219-5_2
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