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[[Category:Tonnage & Waste Types]]

Municipal Solid Waste – or MSW – is a term more extensively used in the EU and includes [[Household Waste]] and any other wastes collected by a [[Waste Collection Authority]], or its agents, such as [[Municipal Parks]] and [[Garden Waste]], [[Beach Cleansing Waste]], [[Commercial Waste]] and waste resulting from the clearance of [[Fly-tipped Materials]]. It can also be used to describe [[Commercial Waste]] that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes as outlined in the definition below.

[[Municipal Solid Waste]] – or [[MSW]] – is a term more extensively used in the EU and includes [[Household Waste]] and any other wastes collected by a [[Waste Collection Authority]], or its agents, such as [[Municipal Parks]] and [[Garden Waste]], [[Beach Cleansing Waste]], [[Commercial Waste]] and waste resulting from the clearance of [[Fly-tipped Materials]]. It can also be used to describe [[Commercial Waste]] that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes as outlined in the definition below.

Municipal Waste was originally defined within Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste but has now been updated and re-defined in Directive 2018/851 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (the [[Waste Framework Directive]]). "Municipal waste" now means <ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018L0851&from=EN] Directive 2018/851/EC </ref>:

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However, further ambiguity may arise in the future with the introduction of the new terms [[Non-Household Municipal Waste]] or [[NHM]] which appeared in the most recent Government consultation on [[Consistency in Recycling Collections in England]].

==References==

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 [[Category:Tonnage & Waste Types]]
-Municipal Solid Waste – or MSW – is a term more extensively used in the EU and includes [[Household Waste]] and any other wastes collected by a [[Waste Collection Authority]], or its agents, such as [[Municipal Parks]] and [[Garden Waste]], [[Beach Cleansing Waste]], [[Commercial Waste]] and waste resulting from the clearance of [[Fly-tipped Materials]]. It can also be used to describe [[Commercial Waste]] that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes as outlined in the definition below.
+[[Municipal Solid Waste]] – or [[MSW]] – is a term more extensively used in the EU and includes [[Household Waste]] and any other wastes collected by a [[Waste Collection Authority]], or its agents, such as [[Municipal Parks]] and [[Garden Waste]], [[Beach Cleansing Waste]], [[Commercial Waste]] and waste resulting from the clearance of [[Fly-tipped Materials]]. It can also be used to describe [[Commercial Waste]] that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes as outlined in the definition below.
 Municipal Waste was originally defined within Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste but has now been updated and re-defined in Directive 2018/851 amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste (the [[Waste Framework Directive]]). "Municipal waste" now means <ref>[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018L0851&from=EN] Directive 2018/851/EC </ref>:
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 However, further ambiguity may arise in the future with the introduction of the new terms [[Non-Household Municipal Waste]] or [[NHM]] which appeared in the most recent Government consultation on [[Consistency in Recycling Collections in England]].
+==References==