Computer Modeling Applications for Municipal Solid Waste Classification, Quantities, Properties, Collection, Processing, Material Separation, and Cost Estimates

Municipal solid waste (MSW) could be defined as a heterogeneous collection of residential throwaways from a certain community, as well as the more homogeneous accumulations of commercial, agricultural, industrial, and mineral wastes. Otherwise it may be defined as materials that do not represent major outputs of market product and serve no productive or consumptive purpose to its producer, which justifies its disposal. Generally, a solid waste represents those things that are unwanted, useless, of no added value, and not needed by someone (Abdel-Magid and Abdel-Magid 2015a; Worrell and Vesilind 2012).