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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 gardens waste, beach cleansing waste, commercial waste and waste resulting from the clearance of fly-tipped materials. It can also be used to describe commercial wastes that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes.

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	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 gardens 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 is broadly similar in nature to ~~[[Household Waste]]~~.		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 gardens waste, beach cleansing waste, commercial waste and waste resulting from the clearance of fly-tipped materials. It can also be used to describe commercial wastes that are broadly similar in nature to household wastes.
	The definition of municipal waste changed in 2010 following negotiations with the EU Commission and the waste community to remove the ambiguity around this term and is now termed ‘Local Authority Collected Municipal Waste’ or ‘Local Authority Collected Waste’